Treffer: The Pillars of Ajax.

In this chapter, we examined the basic technologies and techniques that will be used in the remainder of the book to develop our Ajax applications. We described JavaScript in some detail, including somewhat more advanced topics and ways of making it more "professional" in nature. You learned about XML, including how to parse it on the client. We also touched on the topics of dynamic HTML and DOM manipulation as well as Cascading Stylesheets. Although it is my hope that this chapter has served as an introduction for those of you who may not have had much exposure to the topics discussed, if you do fall in that category I highly recommend finding any of the very good books that go into these topics in even more detail. Although I believe this chapter has put you on a level playing field that will enable you to explore the applications to come, there is no way I could have covered all the finer points of all these things. You will only help yourself by exploring them further and in more exhaustive detail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]