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Ajax Hacks: Tips & Tools for Creating Responsive Web Sites

ISBN: 0596101694
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2006
Pages: 138

Authors: Bruce W. Perry

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• Ajax Hacks
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• credits Credits
• About the Author
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Building Single-Page Applications
• Explaining Ajax
• How to Use This Book
• How This Book Is Organized
• Conventions Used in This Book
• Using Code Examples
• Safari Enabled
• How to Contact Us
• Got a Hack?
• Chapter 1. Ajax Basics
• It s Not a Floor Wax
• Handle with Care
• XMLHttpRequest
• Hack 1. Detect Browser Compatibility with the Request Object
• Hack 2. Use the Request Object to POST Data to the Server
• Hack 3. Use Your Own Library for XMLHttpRequest
• Hack 4. Receive Data as XML
• Hack 5. Get Plain Old Strings
• Hack 6. Receive Data as a Number
• Hack 7. Receive Data in JSON Format
• Hack 8. Handle Request Object Errors
• Hack 9. Dig into the HTTP Response
• Hack 10. Generate a Styled Message with a CSS File
• Hack 11. Generate a Styled User Message on the Fly
• Chapter 2. Web Forms
• Hack 12. Submit Text Field or textarea Values to the Server Without a Browser Refresh
• Hack 13. Display Text Field or textarea Values Using Server Data
• Hack 14. Submit Selection-List Values to the Server Without a Round Trip
• Hack 15. Dynamically Generate a New Selection List Using Server Data
• Hack 16. Extend an Existing Selection List
• Hack 17. Submit Checkbox Values to the Server Without a Round Trip
• Hack 18. Dynamically Generate a New Checkbox Group with Server Data
• Hack 19. Populate an Existing Checkbox Group from the Server
• Hack 20. Change Unordered Lists Using an HTTP Response
• Hack 21. Submit Hidden Tag Values to a Server Component
• Chapter 3. Validation
• Hack 22. Validate a Text Field or textarea for Blank Fields
• Hack 23. Validate Email Syntax
• Hack 24. Validate Unique Usernames
• Hack 25. Validate Credit Card Numbers
• Hack 26. Validate Credit Card Security Codes
• Hack 27. Validate a Postal Code
• Chapter 4. Power Hacks for Web Developers
• Hack 28. Get Access to the Google Maps API
• Hack 29. Use the Google Maps API Request Object
• Hack 30. Use Ajax with a Google Maps and Yahoo Maps Mash-up
• Hack 31. Display a Weather.com XML Data Feed
• Hack 32. Use Ajax with a Yahoo Maps and GeoURL Mash-up
• Hack 33. Debug Ajax-Generated Tags in Firefox
• Hack 34. Fetch a Postal Code
• Hack 35. Create Large, Maintainable Bookmarklets
• Hack 36. Use Permanent Client-Side Storage for Ajax Applications
• Hack 37. Control Browser History with iframes
• Hack 38. Send Cookie Values to a Server Program
• Hack 39. Use XMLHttpRequest to Scrape an Energy Price from a Web Page
• Hack 40. Send an Email with XMLHttpRequest
• Hack 41. Find the Browser s Locale Information
• Hack 42. Create an RSS Feed Reader
• Chapter 5. Direct Web Remoting (DWR)for Java Jocks
• Hack 43. Integrate DWR into Your Java Web Application
• Hack 44. Use DWR to Populate a Selection List from a Java Array
• Hack 45. Use DWR to Create a Selection List from a Java Map
• Hack 46. Display the KeysValues from a Java HashMap on a Web Page
• Hack 47. Use DWR to Populate an Ordered List from a Java Array
• Hack 48. Access a Custom Java Object with JavaScript
• Hack 49. Call a Built-in Java Object from JavaScript Using DWR
• Chapter 6. Hack Ajax with the Prototype and Rico Libraries
• Hack 50. Use Prototype s Ajax Tools with Your Application
• Hack 51. Update an HTML Element s Content from the Server
• Hack 52. Create Observers for Web Page Fields
• Hack 53. Use Rico to Update Several Elements with One Ajax Response
• Hack 54. Create a Drag-and-Drop Bookstore
• Chapter 7. Work with Ajax and Ruby on Rails
• Sensible MVC
• Hack 55. Install Ruby on Rails
• Hack 56. Monitor Remote Calls with Rails
• Hack 57. Make Your JavaScript Available to Rails Applications
• Hack 58. Dynamically Generate a Selection List in a Rails Template
• Hack 59. Find Out Whether Ajax Is Calling in the Request
• Hack 60. Dynamically Generate a Selection List Using Database Data
• Hack 61. Periodically Make a Remote Call
• Hack 62. Dynamically View Request Information for XMLHttpRequest
• Chapter 8. Savor the script.aculo.us JavaScript Library
• Hack 63. Integrate script.aculo.us Visual Effects with an Ajax Application
• Hack 64. Create a Login Box That Shrugs Off Invalid Logins
• Hack 65. Create an Auto-Complete Field with script.aculo.us
• Hack 66. Create an In-Place Editor Field
• Hack 67. Create a Web Form That Disappears When Submitted
• Chapter 9. Options and Efficiencies
• Hack 68. Fix the Browser Back Button in Ajax Applications
• Hack 69. Handle Bookmarks and Back Buttons with RSH
• Hack 70. Set a Time Limit for the HTTP Request
• Hack 71. Improve Maintainability, Performance, and Reliability for Large JavaScript Applications
• Hack 72. Obfuscate JavaScript and Ajax Code
• Hack 73. Use a Dynamic script Tag to Make Web Services Requests
• Hack 74. Configure Apache to Deal with Cross-Domain Issues
• Hack 75. Run a Search Engine Inside Your Browser
• Hack 76. Use Declarative Markup Instead of Script via XForms
• Hack 77. Build a Client-Side Cache
• Hack 78. Create an Auto-Complete Field
• Hack 79. Dynamically Display More Information About a Topic
• Hack 80. Use Strings and Arrays to Dynamically Generate HTML
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