Chapter 6AJAX and Beyond: Merging theDesktop with the Web
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More and more applications these days are being webified—meaning “made to operate on the Web using a browser or made to function in a similar manner.” This is because the Internet is capable of significantly augmenting human interaction, with its decentralized system of ubiquitous data accessibility.
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Much of Web 2.0 is about social networking and collaborative services, but it is more than this. Users these days expect highly interactive user interfaces (UIs) along with rich services. Not long ago, web users worked with character mode applications that provided base ...
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