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1、5304 英文單詞，32432 英文字符，中文 9138 字 出處:Darie C.AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications[M]. Packt Publishing, 2006.：（如果感覺年份太老，可以改為近 5 年或者近 2 年，畢竟很多畢 業(yè)生都這么做）此文檔包含中文翻譯+英文原文，格式經過整理，下載后直接可用。 外文標題：AJAX and PHP: Buildin

2、g Responsive Web Applications - Chapter 1: AJAX and the Future of Web Applications 外文作者：Darie CAJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications - Chapter 1: AJAX and the Future of Web Applications1.Introduction“Comput

3、er, draw a robot!“ said my young cousin to the first computer he had ever seen. (Since I had instructed it not to listen to strangers, the computer wasn't receptive to this command.) If you're like me, your first

4、 thought would be “how silly“ or “how funny“—but this is a mistake. Our educated and modeled brains have learned how to work with computers to a certain degree. People are being educated to accommodate computers, to comp

5、ensate for the lack of ability of computers to understand humans. (On the other hand, humans can't accommodate very well themselves, but that's another story.)This little story is relevant to the way people insti

6、nctively work with computers. In an ideal world, that spoken command should have been enough to have the computer please my cousin. The ability of technology to be user-friendly has evolved very much in the past years, b

7、ut there's still a long way till we have real intelligent computers. Until then, people need to learn how to work with computers—some to the extent that they end up loving a black screen with a tiny command prompt on

8、 it.Not incidentally, the computer-working habits of many are driven by software with user interfaces that allow for intuitive (and enjoyable) human interaction. This probably explains the popularity of the right mouse b

9、utton, the wonder of fancy features such as drag and drop, or that simple text box that searches content all over the Internet for you in just 0.1 seconds (or so it says). The software industry (or the profitable part of

10、 it, anyway) has seen, analyzed, and learned. Now the market is full of programs with shiny buttons, icons, windows, and wizards, and people are paying a lot of money for them.Building user-friendly software has always b

11、een easier with desktop applications than with web applications, simply because the Web was designed as a means for delivering text and images, and not complex functionality. This problem has gotten significantly more pa

12、inful in the last few years, when more and more software services and functionality are delivered via the Web.Consequently, many technologies have been developed (and are still being developed) to add flashy lights, acce

13、ssibility, and power to web applications. Notable examples include Java applets and Macromedia Flash, which require the users to install separate libraries into their web browsers.2.Delivering Functionality via the WebWe

14、b applications are applications whose functionality is processed on a web server, and is delivered to the end users over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. The end users use a thin client (web browser) to run

15、 web applications, which knows how to display and execute the data received from the server. In contrast, desktop applications are based on a thick client (also called a rich client or a fat client), which does most of t

16、he processing.Web applications evolve dreaming that one day they'll look and behave like their mature (and powerful) relatives, the desktop applications. The behavior of any computer software that interacts with huma

17、ns is now even more important than it used to be, because nowadays the computer user base varies much more than in the past, when the users were technically sound as well. Now you need to display good looking reports to

18、Cindy, the sales department manager, and you need to provide easy-to-use data entry forms to Dave, the sales person.Because end-user satisfaction is all that matters, the software application you build must be satisfacto

19、ry to all the users that interact with it. As far as web applications are concerned, their evolution-to-maturity process will be complete when the application's interface and behavior will not reveal whether the func

20、tionality is delivered by the local desktop or comes through fiber or air. Delivering usable interfaces via the Web used to be problematic simply because features that people use with their desktop applications, such as