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 Free programing ebooks JavaScript Adding Ajax - O'Reilly
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 Chapter 1 - Provides an overview of the Ajax technologies, but also covers the importance of developing a strategy for change to your site before sitting down to code. It covers the importance of discovering your audience and provides tips on how you can accomplish this task. It also covers the importance of standards and making sure you have a good, solid web page before you begin to add any Ajax effects.Chapter 2 - Provides a nuts-and-bolts coverage of the heart and soul of Ajax: how to work with the XMLHttpRequest object. In this chapter, I cover how to request a web service using both a GET and a POST request, as well as how to use dynamic scripting for cross-domain data requests. As for types of data, I cover HTML, XML, as well as the newer JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). Chapter 3 - Introduces and demonstrates several of the more important Ajax libraries, including Prototype, script.aculo.us, Rico, MochiKit, and so on. Chapter 4 - Gets into the interactive element that is Ajax, including how to work with events and event handlers that works across browsers, and what works if more than one library is used. Chapter 5 - Explores the concept of web page as space, and covers three popular approaches to managing web space. These include the accordion, where space is collapsed vertically; the tabbed page, where pages are served when tabs are clicked; and the overlay, where the page is overlayed with a message, photo, or other material. Chapter 6 - This is a real nuts-and-bolts chapter. It gets into how to make data updates, including adding new data, deleting, and making updates, all from within a single page. Chapter 7 - This is where we explore the Ajax effects on the Web, including breaking the Back button, losing the browser history, dynamic effects that disappear when the page is refreshed, and being able to link or bookmark an Ajax "page." Chapter 8 - This chapter is pure fun. We've worked hard and now we can take out the paintbrush and fingerpaint set and go wild. This chapter covers some advanced CSS effects, including drag-and-drop "scrollbars," pagination, and the use of SVG, and the Canvas object. Chapter 9 - Explores mashups. One of the most powerful aspects of Ajax is the ability to bring in web services, our own and others, and combine the data in any number of ways directly in our web pages. Chapter 10 - This chapter is both the long breath after the many code examples and a second look at issues of performance, architecture, and security. Privacy of web services is touched on, as well as distributing resource needs and how tightly coupled you want your server and client components to be. Download Free ebook: Adding Ajax
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