| Pro Ajax and The.NET 2.0 Platform |
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Author: Daniel Woolston Ajax is an important technology. It has the power to make web pages more responsive and perhaps even dissolve the distinction between desktop and web applications. Daniel Woolston’s book doesn’t really do the subject justice. It tends to range over far too many topics and fails to concentrate on the key ideas. It rambles on and while it deals with simple ideas, such as how basic Javascript works, it ignores most of the difficulties of implementing an Ajax approach. Its coverage of the .NET approach to Ajax is slightly better but there are still too many unhelpful screen dumps and overly long listings to make this a good book. The author tends to talk around the subject matter and then presents listings as if they were a substitute for a clear explanation. If you want to know something useful about Ajax, or specifically Ajax .NET, you really need to look elsewhere. |