A text editor, integrated development environment (IDE), or What You
See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor is a must. This might be BBEdit
on the Macintosh (my personal favorite text editor), Notepad on Windows,
Eclipse (a popular, open source IDE), or Dreamweaver (a popular, commercial
WYSIWYG app). It doesn??™t matter what you use as long as it??™s something in
which you can create and edit plain-text fi les.
The second requirement is a Web browser, but if you have a computer, you
have one of these. Because Ajax can have browser-specifi c issues, you??™ll want
to have many different browsers on many di?¬? erent operating systems, if at
all possible. I tested the book??™s examples using Internet Explorer and Firefox
on Windows (XP) and using Safari, Firefox, and Opera on Mac OS X.
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I highly recommend that you use Firefox for development and initial
testing purposes, as it??™s far less quirky than Internet Explorer and has many
great debugging tools.
The most advanced requirement is a PHP-enabled Web server. You??™ll need
to run PHP through Apache, Microsoft??™s Internet Information Server, or some
other Web server.
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