Chapter One
Ajax 101
In This Chapter
* Introducing how Ajax works
* Seeing Ajax at work in live searches, chat, shopping carts, and more
We aren't getting enough orders on our Web site," storms the CEO.
"People just don't like clicking all those buttons and waiting for a new
page all the time. It's too distracting."
"How about a simpler solution?" you ask. "What if people could stay on the
same page and just drag the items they want to buy to a shopping cart? No
page refreshes, no fuss, no muss."
"You mean people wouldn't have to navigate from page to page to add items
to a shopping cart and then check out? Customers could do everything on a
single Web page?"
"Yep," you say. "And that page would automatically let our software on the
server know what items the customer had purchased all without having to
reload the Web page."
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