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Chapter 6

Trying things out

Ready to take Boards ‘R’ Us for a little test drive? Make sure you’ve nished

the exercise on the last two pages, and made those changes to your copy of

boards.js. If you’re not sure about your answers, you can compare them

to ours in the back of this chapter, on page 366. Then save your changes,

re up your web browser, and load boards.html.

Here’s how boards.html starts out.

Click “Show Me the Money”...

...and you should get

updated totals for

all three products,

without any nasty

page reloads.

Looks like Katie is

making sales in all

three lines.

Wow! Time to raise your

fees for working on the

Boards report!

an xml response in action

you’re on your way 4

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xml requests and responses

I’m telling you, Doc. I’m so much

happier these days. I’ve nally found

a way to say so much more... XML has

really done the trick.

Dr. Zigmund: Ex-zellent. Zo you nd that you are listened to now?

Server: Oh, yes. And I’ll even admit... that guy with the tree farm has really

helped out a lot.

Dr. Zigmund: Tell me more about zat...

Server: Well, at rst, I was sending back XML—which was great, I’m telling

you, nobody was asking me about comma-separated values or anything like that

anymore—and browsers totally understood what I was saying. But it seemed that

people were having trouble ...