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I'm not new to HTML or javascript but using XML with the both of them I would be. Currently I use HTML as static pages and javascript mainly for validation. My first question is how feasible (or possible) is it to create an application entirely made up of HTML, Javascript/DOM, and XML? Currently I use JSP, Perl, and PHP so actually creating an app that runs entirely on the client would be quite interesting. Second question: through reading various books I've found that a book falls in 2 main categories. One that throughly explains everything to detail with little example or one that talks briefly about the details and jumps into examples. Which way does your book sway in regards to pure explanation to pure examples/exercises? Thanks.

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Add my 2 cents: You still need a serverside language if you plan on saving info!

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Eric,
I was looking at whether a querying app would be feasible using AJAX if the data was relatively large. I read somewhere (I thought) that by downloading a certain jar file that you could enable javascript to perform writes and step outside the (I believe the term was) sandbox (?). Is this accurate? Have you read the book Eric? I was interested in how it was structured, what level of programming would this book be a good fit for, etc..,. I've just started looking over some DOM and (never used it) it seems pretty cool <insert modern day appropriate slang word>. Thanks.

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Ajax without server-side components is like a world with a single telephone -- who you gonna call?
 
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I think you may find my book interesting in this regard... I go over a technique I call a "mock server" (I probably didn't invent it, but I've never heard it referred to that way). It allows you to simulate a server with nothing but HTML pages. I find that for doing very rapid prototyping work, this is a valuable technique because it (a) saves me from having to worry about writing any serve-side code that I then have to debug, compile, deploy, etc. to work with, and (b) keeps me mentally focused on getting the client-side code right before I implement the server-side (although frequently I find myself developing in the exact opposite direction by just coding service interfaces that the UI will eventually call upon).
 
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