>>My next Ajax book will be Foundations of Ajax but I am definitely going >>to get Ajax in Action based on your recommendation. > > I'd say skip it - it's pretty much the same basic contents as Head Rush > Ajax.
I agree. I've read quite a bunch of AJAX's books in the last few months."AJAX in Action" from Manning is excellent in terms of written contents, but: - Many samples are more or less broken in various browsers - The basic XHR library they use doesn't works with Safari (unlike what they say) and cause a JS error in IE - A few examples don't work in any browser :-( "Head Rush Ajax" and "Foundations of Ajax" are very basic. "Pragmatic AJAX" was totally useless for me too, but I guess I am biased, since I know JavaScript/AJAX quite well. "Professional AJAX", from Wrox, has a few good chapters (the initial ones, written by Zakas), mixed with other material that doesn't meet the same quality standards. Pretty typical of books written by many authors... What I like about "Professional AJAX" is the fact they cover using XPath and XSLT in JavaScript as well. But then, all their XSLT code use synchronous calls and sometimes doesn't work in IE :-( All in all I've seen plenty of buggy code on anything but the most basic AJAX's book. I guess the rush to arrive first to the market affected the overall quality... ---------------------------- Massimo Foti Tools for ColdFusion and Dreamweaver developers: http://www.massimocorner.com ---------------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:244430 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
