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Beginning Programming in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself, Third Edition
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Beginning Programming in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself, Third Edition

by Greg Perry, Dean Miller
December 2013
Beginner
464 pages
12h 32m
English
Sams
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Hour 17. JavaScript and AJAX

As you’ve seen with the JavaScript examples so far in this book, JavaScript is a client-side programming language that allows you to display and interact with information in your web browser. AJAX, on the other hand, is a set of technologies (one of which is JavaScript) that allows you to move beyond the client-side boundaries of a web browser and work with files on a web server or with responses from server-side programs.

This hour introduces you to the basics of working with AJAX, including

Image How AJAX enables JavaScript to communicate with server-side programs and files

Using the XMLHttpRequest object’s properties ...

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