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    Ajax: The Definitive Guide: Interactive Applications for the Web

    Ajax: The Definitive Guide: Interactive Applications for the Web

    by Anthony T., III Holdener III

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      ISBN-13: 9780596554972
    • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
    • Publication date: 01/25/2008
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 982
    • File size: 16 MB
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    Anthony T. Holdener III currently builds Internet/Intranet applications utilizing the latest available technologies while striving for accessibility and cross-browser compatibility. He has worked with the web in one form or another since 1997 when he helped open an Internet cafe in Fairview Heights, Illinois. A graduate of St. Louis University with a degree in Computer Science, Anthony has worked as a web architect or developer for the past eight years for a number of Fortune 500 companies in the St. Louis area. He resides in the village of Shiloh, Illinois, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife and twin toddlers. When not on his computer, Anthony enjoys reading, painting, and spending time with his family.

    Table of Contents

    Preface     xiii
    Ajax Fundamentals
    Reinventing the Web     3
    Web Page Components     3
    Modern Web Standards     9
    Browsers     17
    Standards Compliance     19
    Welcome to Web 2.0     20
    From Web Sites to Web Applications     22
    The Transition     22
    Basic Web and Ajax Design Patterns     28
    Application Environments     31
    The Developer     33
    What Ajax Is Not     34
    Servers, Databases, and the Web     35
    The Web Server     36
    Server-Side Scripting     39
    Databases     44
    Getting Data Into and Out of Relational Databases     48
    Interfacing the Interface     54
    Frameworks and Languages     57
    What Good Are Frameworks?     63
    Foundations: Scripting XML and JSON     68
    XML     68
    JSON     86
    Choosing a Data Exchange Format     92
    A Quick Introduction to Client Frameworks     94
    Simplifying Development     97
    Manipulating the DOM     103
    Understanding the DOM     103
    We've Already Met     105
    Manipulating DOM Elements, Attributes, and Objects     106
    Change That Style     117
    Events in the DOM     129
    DOM Stuff for Tables     135
    Is innerHTML Evil?     138
    Designing Ajax Interfaces     141
    Usability     141
    Functionality     153
    Visualization     158
    Accessibility     167
    The Ajax Interface     171
    Ajax Foundations
    Laying Out Site Navigation     175
    Menus     175
    Tabs     212
    Navigation Aids     221
    Problems with Ajax Navigation     243
    General Layout     246
    Fun with Tables and Lists     247
    Layout Without Tables     247
    Accessible Tables     252
    Sorting Tables     264
    Tables with Style     280
    Table Pagination     283
    Lists 2.0     291
    Lists for All Seasons     292
    Page Layout with Frames That Aren't     316
    Using Frames     316
    XHTML and Frames     321
    The Magic of Ajax and a DIV     323
    Page Layout     329
    Navigation Boxes and Windows     335
    The Alert Box     335
    Integrating the Window     335
    Navigation Windows     347
    Tool Tips     355
    The Necessary Pop Up     360
    Customizing the Client     363
    Browser Customizations     363
    Stylesheet Switching     368
    Switching Different Customizations     381
    Easy Font-Size Switching     386
    Creating Color Themes     392
    Throwing Ajax into the Mix     397
    Changing Site Language with Ajax     400
    Repositioning Objects and Keeping Those Positions     403
    Storing It All in the Database     407
    Errors: To Be (in Style) or Not to Be     408
    Error Handling on the Web     408
    Should I React to That Error?     413
    Handling an Error with Care     417
    Integrating the User Error     420
    This Ain't Your Father's Animation     434
    Animation on the Web     434
    What Is Wrong with GIF?     437
    Building Animation with the PNG Format     439
    Ajax Animations     453
    A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Form     482
    XHTML Forms      482
    Using JavaScript     490
    Fancier Forms     498
    The Basics of Ajax and Forms     519
    Accepting Ajax-Delivered Data     524
    Server Responses     531
    Data Validation: Client, Server, or Both     534
    Data Validation Is Important     534
    Validation with JavaScript     536
    CSS Notification of Errors     552
    Validation on the Server     555
    Ajax Client/Server Validation     558
    Ajax in Applications
    Search: The New Frontier     565
    Types of Site Searches     565
    Dynamic Searching with Ajax     577
    Googling a Site     581
    Introducing Web Services     594
    What Is a Web Service?     594
    Web Service Architectures     594
    Ajax and Web Services     606
    Web Feeds     613
    Web Service APIs     618
    Web Services: The APIs     619
    Publicly Available Web Services     619
    Ajax and the API     657
    The Next Step with Services     658
    Mashups     659
    Mashups in Web 2.0 Applications     659
    What Are Mashups?     659
    Mashups As Applications      661
    Data Sources     665
    Application Portlets     668
    Building a Mashup     668
    Mashups and Business     671
    For Your Business Communication Needs     672
    Businesses and Ajax     672
    Real-Time Communication     674
    File Sharing     691
    Whiteboards     703
    Combining Applications     720
    Internet Games Without Plug-ins     721
    Gaming on the Web     721
    Internet Requirements     732
    Animating a Character     735
    Basic Collisions     753
    User Input     764
    The Basics of Event Handling     767
    Putting It All Together     776
    Wrapping Up
    Modular Coding     789
    What Is Modular Coding?     789
    The Client Side     791
    The Server Side     804
    Optimizing Ajax Applications     807
    Site Optimization Factors     807
    HTTP     809
    Packets     815
    Client-Side Optimizations     818
    Server-Side Optimizations     830
    Ajax Optimization     838
    References
    The XML and XSLT You Need to Know     843
    JavaScript Framework, Toolkit, and Library References     863
    Web Service API Catalog     892
    Ajax Risk References     916
    Index     925

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    Is Ajax a new technology, or the same old stuff web developers have been using for years? Both, actually. This book demonstrates not only how tried-and-true web standards make Ajax possible, but how these older technologies allow you to give sites a decidedly modern Web 2.0 feel.

    Ajax: The Definitive Guide explains how to use standards like JavaScript, XML, CSS, and XHTML, along with the XMLHttpRequest object, to build browser-based web applications that function like desktop programs. You get a complete background on what goes into today's web sites and applications, and learn to leverage these tools along with Ajax for advanced browser searching, web services, mashups, and more. You discover how to turn a web browser and web site into a true application, and why developing with Ajax is faster, easier and cheaper.

    The book also explains:

    • How to connect server-side backend components to user interfaces in the browser
    • Loading and manipulating XML documents, and how to replace XML with JSON
    • Manipulating the Document Object Model (DOM)
    • Designing Ajax interfaces for usability, functionality, visualization, and accessibility
    • Site navigation layout, including issues with Ajax and the browser's back button
    • Adding life to tables & lists, navigation boxes and windows
    • Animation creation, interactive forms, and data validation
    • Search, web services and mash-ups
    • Applying Ajax to business communications, and creating Internet games without plug-ins
    • The advantages of modular coding, ways to optimize Ajax applications, and more
    This book also provides references to XML and XSLT, popular JavaScript Frameworks, Libraries, and Toolkits, and various Web Service APIs. By offering web developers a much broader set of tools and options, Ajax gives developers a new way to create content on the Web, while throwing off the constraints of the past. Ajax: The Definitive Guide describes the contents of this unique toolbox in exhaustive detail, and explains how to get the most out of it.

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