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| Category: | General - Books | By: | Wrox, an imprint of Wiley |
| More info: | www.wrox.com | Author(s): | Chris Ullman, Lucinda Dykes |
| Pages: | 498 | Year of publication: | 2007 |
| This book teaches you how to create applications according to Ajax principles. The reader is expected to be familiar with the following client-side technologies: HTML (and/or) XHTML, JavaScript, and Cascading style sheets (CSS). The reader will also need to be familiar with at least one of the two following server-side technologies: PHP or ASP.NET. The reader is not expected to know any of the following because full introductions to each technology will be given (although familiarity with one » Read more... |  |
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This book teaches you how to create applications
according to Ajax principles. The reader is expected
to be familiar with the following client-side technologies:
HTML (and/or) XHTML, JavaScript, and Cascading style sheets
(CSS). The reader will also need to be
familiar with at least one of the two
following server-side technologies: PHP or ASP.NET. The reader
is not expected to know any of the
following because full introductions to each technology will
be given (although familiarity with one or many
of them may be useful): Document Object Model
(DOM), XML, XPath, Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT),
and Web services (REST and SOAP).
Some of the
topics covered include:
- A JavaScript refresher and JavaScript
reference;
- Ajax & server-side technologies including the XMLHttpRequest
object and how it can call ASP.NET, PHP,
and Java applications;
- The different techniques that can
be considered Ajax techniques, regardless of whether they
make use of the XMLHttpRequest object, hidden frames,
hidden inline frames, dynamic image loading, and dynamic
script loading;
- Working with XML and the XMLHttpRequest
object
Debugging & Error Handling;
- Web Services, APIs, and
Mashups including embedded maps, photographs, weather forecasts, or
music playlists in applications via either web services
or APIs;- XSLT and XPath;
- Common Ajax patterns
such as page preloading & form validation;
- Working
with external data including how to use external
feeds such as RSS and Atom and how
you can create applications to consume data sources
that push data at regular intervals; & more.