Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.
From Jesse James Garrett
Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow.
But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.
The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before.
There are some aspects of the diagram that I wish I had expressed a little more clearly.
Besides, Weebles are too hard to draw - they just end up looking like eggs, not people.
A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.
Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.
At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide.
Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.
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