循序渐进学习 Ajax 的途径

2、JavaScript 权威指南第四版（JavaScript: The Definitive Guide）


这本书前一阶段china-pub上有打折的，搞了一本，内容感觉不错，不过只能做为参考书放在工作台上，太厚了。

上个月用了几天时间看了《网站重构》，看过之后真的有点儿乱，以为是自己理解力不行呢，（我做了四年的web，对相关的技术都比较熟悉）。看了你的帖子我心里有底了，呵呵

《软件创新之路》我也看了一半儿，往返于沈阳和大连的火车上看的，挺不错的，一直写代码，很多东西都忽略了。那本《about face 2.0》还没看呢，最近一个月项目太忙了

看过你的另一个帖子，关于《面向使用的软件设计》的，准备也买本来看看。

目前用AJAX不考虑结合XML,只关心返回,用之因为效率,弃之亦因为效率.

这本书废话太多，翻译又不好，而且出版于May 14, 2003有些显老了。
关于css，还是选择在amazon上搜css的前两名的书
The Zen of CSS Design : Visual Enlightenment for the Web (Voices That Matter)   4星
Stylin' with CSS : A Designer's Guide (Paperback)  5星级哦

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321305256/qid=1135040536/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-3357368-2979868?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321303474/qid=1135040536/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-3357368-2979868?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
非常出色

摘抄一段评价：
32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

Cheesy Title, but an Awesome CSS Book!, September 12, 2005
Reviewer: Spencer Hall (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews
    
When I started browsing Amazon for a CSS book appropriate for a beginner, I was overwhelmed by just how many there are out there! I read all the reviews and such, but could not really determine any major difference between the books or figure out which ones were `better than the others.

I decided that in order to make my decision I was going to have to flip through the books a little myself before purchasing. I took my little list to the local bookstore, gathered all of them up, and plopped down on a couch. I flipped through about 6 different books including Designing with Web Standards, CSS Core, CSS Cookbook, Beginning CSS, both Eric Meyer books, and of course, Stylin' with CSS.

I really didn't expect much from this book, I kind of grabbed it as an afterthought, or "might as well..."
I spent a good hour or so browsing the table of contents, reading bits and pieces of each book to get a feel for the author's style. I have to say I was not impressed with most of these, particularly the Eric Meyer books that so many people seem to swear by. My decision came down to Stylin' With CSS or Designing with Web Standards by Dan Cedarholm.

I chose Stylin' with CSS for several reasons. For one, Charles Wyke-Smith has a great, easy style of writing and explaining the concepts behind the rules of CSS. CSS is not overly difficult, but there is a learning curve and Wyke-Smith breaks it down into plain English. Secondly, the organization of the book is probably the most logical among the CSS books. It is not a reference book, as there are thorough explanations, but it is organized like a reference- by topic, in a sensible order. This makes it not only easy to follow the first time around, but makes it much easier to jump back to as a reference when needed. The quick reference chart in the back also comes in handy, and this book stays next to my computer at all times. Lastly, the page layout of the book is also visually appealing. It's not a picture book, but it doesn't look like a dictionary either. There's just the right amount of helpful images and screenshots, as well as colored text to differentiate code from explanations.

This book is the best that I can recommend for getting started in CSS. I can honestly say that my purchase was the best $20 I've ever spent on web design.

The Zen of CSS Design，确实是经典的好书，如果推荐 CSS 的专著我一定会首先推荐它。目前这本书已经出了台湾版，我已经向多家出版社推荐了这本书，相信在明年上半年，应该就会出大陆版。

不过 Designing with Web Standards 仍然是经典的好书。这两本书的定位是不同的，可能很多读者正是读了这本书才深刻认识到了 Web 标准的价值，产生了深入学习的兴趣，然后才去学习上面一本书的。至于这本书翻译的问题，我也向出版社的同志指出过，他们已经认识到了，就不要穷追猛打了。

AJAX Is A Browser Technology

AJAX is a technology that runs in your browser. It uses asynchronous data transfer between the browser and the web server, allowing web pages to request small bits of information from the server instead of whole pages.

The technology makes Internet applications smaller, faster and more user friendly.

lamp  AJAX is a web browser technology independent of web server software.

"向后兼容？"，不敢苟同。你现在设计的东西怎么兼容IE10?用什么方式来兼容？怎么样兼容？JDK1.1兼容JDK1.5吗？？