Preface
Developing modern, interactive, complex web sites has become a harder task since users’ expectations are higher today. The bar has been raised by the current crop of applications such as Gmail or Google Maps, and developers are expected to work up to that level and provide similarly powerful new web sites. The style, speed, and interaction levels of modern sites practically rival those of classical desktop installed applications, and of course users don’t want to go back. How do you develop such sites?
It can be said that the usage of Ajax was what started the trend toward such distinctive applications, but even given that technique, the rest of the development of web pages was the same, tools were the same, testing methods were the same, ...
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