Aarron Walter

Jeremy Keith of Clear Left has written a new book that will be released soon entitled Bulletproof Ajax. I’m sure you’ve heard of or hopefully read Dan Cederholm’s Bulletproof Web Design, which examines methods of building sites that prevent the display from breaking in all situations. This new book is along the same lines, but focused instead on some new ideas behind the use of Ajax. Jeremy Keith is also the author of the popular book DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model, which leads me to believe this forthcoming book will be equally as useful and well written. What’s interesting about Bulletproof Ajax is it will be, to my knowledge, the first book on the market that discusses graceful degradation of Ajax functionality (dubbed Hijax by Kieth himself). Keith has a nice presentation he gave at Web Directions South this past September that sums up the core concepts of Hijax that is a good read as you wait for his book to be released. An MP3 of the presentation was to be released as well, but as of yet is not out. You may also want to check out Kieth’s original article about graceful degradation of Ajax, the follow up where the term Hijax is coined, and his sample application which puts into practice these concepts.