If's you're ever read a Head First biik, you know What to expect: a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works. Head rush ramps up the intensity with an even faster look and feel. Have your first working app before you finish Chapter 1. Meet up with the nefarious PROJECT: CHAOS stealth team, and even settle the question of the Top 5 Blues CDs of all time. Leave boring. Clunky web sites behind with 8-tracks and hot pants--and get going with next-generation web programming.

Chapter 1: Using Ajax: web applications for a new generation
Chapter 2: Speaking the Language: making ajax requests
Chapter 3: She Blinded Me with Asynchrony: asynchronous apps
Chapter 4: Web Page Forestry: the document object model
Chapter 4.5: A Second Helping: Developing dom applications
Chapter 5: Saying More with POST: post requests Interlude
Chapter 6: More Than Words Can Say: xml requests and responses
Chapter 7: A Fight to the Finish: json versus xml