Free eBook: Unobtrusive Ajax
Oct 22 2010Great news! O'Reilly has been kind enough to let me distribute my eBook Unobtrusive Ajax to readers of my blog, so now you can download and read it for free!
Download "Unobtrusive Ajax" eBook
From the book's cover:
Unobtrusive Ajax is about making web
applications that work for everyone all
the time, even if you have JavaScript
turned off, or you're using a mobile
phone or a screen reader, or however you
happen to be using the Web. It's about
the separation of behavior (JavaScript),
content (HTML), and presentation
(CSS).This short cut will focus on the practical benefits of using Ajax and JavaScript unobtrusively and show you that unobtrusive web development and progressive enhancement benefit both web developers and users of the Web. You'll get to see many simple examples of building web interfaces that are unobtrusive. You'll quickly see that it is actually very easy to make web applications that everyone can use.
When you're finished reading this book, you will be able to convince anyone why developing unobtrusively is the best way to build a site with JavaScript and Ajax.
I wrote this book back in 2007, before I'd discovered jQuery, so writing unobtrusive JavaScript has become even easier than ever. That said, the principals of writing web pages that work without JavaScript remain the same: keep your content in the HTML, use real links and forms, and avoid depending on JavaScript or Flash for any critical functionality.
Nowadays, I would also suggest bearing different user interfaces in mind. Not every visitor to your website has a mouse and a keyboard, some are using their handheld touchscreen phones, and if your shopping cart requires people to drag and drop, you may end up losing customers. Be careful not to make assumptions about your visitors. If you stick with basic HTML, you can't go wrong.
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1. Zaktus at 9:55am on November 4, 2010
It,s very well! Good job!! Thanks you!
4. Jesse Skinner at 2:01pm on November 4, 2010
@Carlos - it's a PDF, so maybe you'll have better luck right clicking on the link and clicking "Save link as.."
6. Pankaj Nikam at 1:46am on November 5, 2010
Thanks for such wonderful book on AJAX. I always thought about the disabled JavaScript problem. Thanks for a topic on that one. I really appreciate your move for that.
9. Stefano at 12:21pm on November 5, 2010
Great works!
It tell me a few of concepts that are so obvious that I often forget to apply them.
thanks10. Rapi at 10:56pm on November 6, 2010
Sugoi! Thanks!
11. Alexander Chirlin at 3:02am on November 7, 2010
Thank you for sharing, very interesting insight.
12. Manoj at 10:18am on November 10, 2010
Hey,
Just downloaded the file. Liked the way you broke down the whole experience of the web into behavior, content and presentation. :-)
Will start reading soon. :)13. Tom at 1:13pm on November 11, 2010
Nice book, thanks!
BTW, there's a typo at the top of Page 31, the header says "Selecting Elements by Class Name (nd More)" - I think you're missing an "a".
Thanks again!14. Rizky Syazuli at 12:30am on December 5, 2010
thx for sharing this :) progressive enhancement is always an interesting issue in this advanced digital age..
17. Rajdeep at 12:53pm on December 13, 2010
Thanx for sharing these valuable knowledge.I need your help..Actually i want to learn about web devlopement.Which include php,ajax,jhoombla,mysql.But my seniors told me that it has no future.so kindly tell me about web devlopement future in the above mention courses..I am a fresher and i really need your help.I will wait for your reply in my mail.Thanking you..bye.
18. Ashish Kumar at 7:36am on January 11, 2011
Informative post, this article is proof to be best for us!!!!
19. Ebooks at 4:05am on January 27, 2011
I love to read ebooks and they are economical than the books as it is not possible for everyone to read all the books by purchasing them all, and it is also not possible to carry the books to everywhere.
21. Muhammad Shahid at 3:45am on September 18, 2011
<b>Hello Mir Jesse Skinner!</b>
<i>
I used you book, it is really nice and complete.
</i>22. Zeeman at 9:23pm on December 20, 2011
I will begin to use Ajax during my work, your sharing is valuable for me.
thx.23. ausaf malik at 2:44am on November 19, 2012
very good resources.....
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