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JavaScript: Novice to Ninja
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JavaScript: Novice to Ninja

by Darren Darren Jones Jones
November 2014
Beginner
500 pages
9h 20m
English
SitePoint
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Chapter 13Ajax

Ajax is a technique that allows web pages to communicate asynchronously with a server and dynamically updates web pages without reloading. This enables data to be sent and received in the background, as well as portions of a page to be updated in response to user events, while the rest of the program continues to run.

The use of Ajax revolutionized how websites worked and ushered in a new age of web applications. Web pages were no longer static, but dynamic applications.

In this chapter, we’ll cover the following topics:

  • clients and servers

  • a brief history of Ajax

  • communicating with the server using the XMLHttpRequest object

  • receiving data with Ajax

  • sending data with Ajax

  • form data

  • Ajax timeouts

  • JSON with padding

  • our project―obtain ...

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