Scriptin’ with JavaScript and Ajax: A Designer’s Guide

Chapter 7. Two Simple Web Applications

This final chapter features two simple applications that bring together many of the ideas and techniques that you saw in the earlier chapters. The previous examples were written in a way that made them as simple to understand as possible. In this chapter, where the code was developed for me by Austin Markus and Chris Heilmann, two respected professional programmers, we take a more pragmatic approach and write the code as it would be developed in business projects. This chapter’s examples differ from real applications in the scope of their feature sets, which have been kept to an absolute minimum while still illustrating the concepts I want to show. To maintain the consistency of voice throughout the chapter, ...