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Understanding AJAX: Using JavaScript to Create Rich Internet Applications

ISBN: 0132216353
EAN: 2147483647

Year: N/A
Pages: 154

Authors: Joshua Eichorn

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• Understanding AJAX: Using JavaScript to Create Rich Internet Applications
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Preface
• Part I:
• Chapter 1. What Is AJAX?
• Section 1.1. Rich Internet Applications
• Section 1.2. AJAX Defined
• Section 1.3. Technologies of AJAX
• Section 1.4. Remote Scripting
• Section 1.5. Gmail Brings XMLHttpRequest into the Mainstream
• Section 1.6. New Name: AJAX
• Section 1.7. Summary
• Chapter 2. Getting Started
• Section 2.1. XMLHttpRequest Overview
• Section 2.2. Cross-Browser XMLHttpRequest
• Section 2.3. Sending Asynchronous Requests
• Section 2.4. AJAX Without XMLHttpRequest
• Section 2.5. Fallback Option 1: Sending a Request Using an IFrame
• Section 2.6. Fallback Option 2: Sending a Request Using a Cookie
• Section 2.7. Summary
• Chapter 3. Consuming the Sent Data
• Section 3.1. Document-Centric Approaches
• Section 3.2. Remote Scripting
• Section 3.3. How to Decide on a Request Type
• Section 3.4. Summary
• Chapter 4. Adding AJAX to Your Web Development Process
• Section 4.1. Changes to the Development Cycle
• Section 4.2. Integrating AJAX into a Framework
• Section 4.3. JavaScript as a Primary Development Language
• Section 4.4. Problems Created by the New Development Paradigm
• Section 4.5. Advantages to Using a Library
• Section 4.6. Reasons to Build Your Own Library
• Section 4.7. How Open Source Fits into the Mix
• Section 4.8. Use Case for Building: The Firefox Counter
• Section 4.9. Use Case for Downloading: An Intranet Web Site
• Section 4.10. Summary
• Chapter 5. Getting the Most from AJAX
• Section 5.1. Goals of AJAX
• Section 5.2. Measuring Improvements
• Section 5.3. Promises and Problems of Combining AJAX with Other New Technologies
• Section 5.4. Summary
• Chapter 6. Usability Guidelines
• Section 6.1. Defining Usability
• Section 6.2. Usability Guidelines
• Section 6.3. Common Usability Problems
• Section 6.4. Summary
• Chapter 7. AJAX Debugging Guide
• Section 7.1. Two Sides to Debugging
• Section 7.2. Looking at AJAX Communications
• Section 7.3. JavaScript Debugging Tools
• Section 7.4. JavaScript Exceptions
• Section 7.5. Dumping Variables
• Section 7.6. Summary
• Part II:
• Chapter 8. Libraries Used in Part II: Sarissa, Scriptaculous
• Section 8.1. Overview of the Use Cases
• Section 8.2. Libraries Used in Part II of This Book
• Section 8.3. Sarissa
• Section 8.4. Scriptaculous
• Section 8.5. Summary
• Chapter 9. Libraries Used in Part II: HTML_AJAX
• Section 9.1. HTML_AJAX
• Section 9.2. Summary
• Chapter 10. Speeding Up Data Display
• Section 10.1. Overview of the Sun Rise and Set Data Viewer
• Section 10.2. Building the Non-AJAX Version of the Sun Rise and Set Viewer
• Section 10.3. Problems with the Non-AJAX Viewer
• Section 10.4. Improving Viewing with AJAX
• Section 10.5. Summary
• Chapter 11. Adding an AJAX Login to a Blog
• Section 11.1. Why Logins Work Well with AJAX
• Section 11.2. Building an AJAX Login
• Section 11.3. Extending the Login Form
• Section 11.4. Implementing the AJAX Comment Login System Using XML
• Section 11.5. Summary
• Chapter 12. Building a Trouble-Ticket System
• Section 12.1. Trouble-Ticketing System
• Section 12.2. AJAX Reliance Scale
• Section 12.3. Creating the Back End
• Section 12.4. Exporting the Back End
• Section 12.5. Building the JavaScript Application
• Section 12.6. Login Component
• Section 12.7. User-Registration Component
• Section 12.8. Account-Editing Component
• Section 12.9. Ticket-Creation Component
• Section 12.10. Ticket-Editor Component
• Section 12.11. My-Tickets Component
• Section 12.12. Assign-Tickets Component
• Section 12.13. Security Considerations with AJAX Applications
• Section 12.14. Comparing Our AJAX-Driven Application against a Standard MVC Model
• Section 12.15. Summary
• Appendix A. JavaScript AJAX Libraries
• AJAX Toolbox
• Bajax
• Dojo Toolkit
• libXmlRequest
• MochiKit
• Rico
• Simple AJAX Code-Kit (SACK)
• ThyAPI
• Qooxdoo
• XHConn
• Yahoo User Interface Library
• Appendix B. AJAX Libraries with Server Ties
• PHP
• Java
• C.NET
• Multiple Languages
• Appendix C. JavaScript DHTML Libraries
• Accesskey Underlining Library (AUL)
• Behaviour
• cssQuery()
• Dean Edwards IE7
• DOM-Drag
• JavaScript Shell
• Lightbox JS
• Moo.fx
• Nifty Corners Cube
• overLIB
• Sorttable
• Tooltip.js
• WZ_jsgraphics
• WZ_dragdrop
• Index
• A
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• D
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• F
• G
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