There is a third book "Learning jQuery"
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library implementing the jQuery library that you should also think of buying.
The most advanced library I know of is
NCZOnline - Downloads
zXml 1.0.2 A JavaScript library for cross-browser XML, XPath, and XSLT support. (24 KB)
Book on home page
NCZOnline - The Official Web Site of Nicholas C. Zakas "Professional AJAX".
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Originally Posted by kurt.santo
Great stuff!!! You have been more than helpful. Had a read through the given websites (although I have to admit after 5 minutes reading the RFCs got a headache and had to stop  ) and will purchase the two books from Sitepoint. Read through the synopsis, seems to give a lot of valuable info. Hopefully I am able soon to tackle my forms in a better way and also to built my first AJAX site...
Kurt |
Recommendations:
- Start with the AJAX book from SitePoint. You get a very soft introduction to OOP. You can not do any serious DOM building and AJAX without having a simple understanding of OOP.
- Don't drown yourself in details. Learn to use libraries and modify code. Test the code that comes with the books. Look at it. Sometimes minor modifications are all you need to implement your own applications.