In traditional web applications (sometimes called the old way of doing things), a page is rendered, which the user interacts with; perhaps they log in, enter some search criteria, or choose an option. This information is then posted back to the server and a new page is returned and rendered on the browser. This, of course, requires a server round trip as well as downloading and rendering a new page. However, there is another way that is much more responsive. You can simply update the current page using the DOM manipulation techniques I showed you in Chapter 18. However, you’ll need ...
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