Ch 1-5 (AJAX): pretty decent, but a wee bit dated Ch 6 (XML/XSLT/XPath): weird placement and material in an AJAX book Ch 7 (RSS/Atom): weird placement, Ch 1-5 (AJAX): pretty decent, but a wee bit dated Ch 6 (XML/XSLT/XPath): weird placement and material in an AJAX book Ch 7 (RSS/Atom): weird placement, but decent Ch 8 (JSON): not bad, but could have used more Ch 9 (Comet): weak Ch 10 (Maps): one of the highlights of the book Ch 11 (Debugging): a bit dated, but decent Ch 12-16: feels a bit like random filler
LOTS of bad server-side code with SQL injections all over the place. They're mentioned in an off-hand paragraph towards the beginning of the book, but the abundance in the text makes them hard to catch if you don't know what you're doing. Not a text I'd let AJAX-beginners learn from....more