Understanding AJAX: Using JavaScript to Create Rich Internet Applications - Joshua Eichorn

• AJAX: fast mastery for experienced Web developers!
• Already an experienced Web developer? Apply your skills in today’s fastest-growing area of Web development: AJAX!
• Building on what you already know, this fast-paced guide will show you exactly how to create rich, usable Internet applications. Joshua Eichorn teaches through sophisticated code examples, including extensive server-side PHP code.
• You won’t just learn how to code AJAX applications: Eichorn covers the entire development lifecycle, from use cases and design through debugging. He also presents detailed application case studies, including a start-to-finish update of a non-AJAX application that addresses everything from feature improvements to changing usage patterns. Coverage includes:
• How AJAX changes the conventional Web development cycle
• Problems created by the AJAX paradigm -- and how to avoid them
• Adding AJAX to existing Web applications: key considerations
• Using core AJAX technologies, including the XMLHttpRequest object
• Consuming data returned to an AJAX application using both XSLT and JSON
• Building more usable AJAX applications: guidelines and accessible resources
• Use cases: solving real-world problems in the AJAX environment
• Libraries and toolkits for simplifying AJAX development, including Sarissa, scriptaculous, and HTML_AJAX
• A complete guide to AJAX debugging
• Supporting browsers without XMLHttpRequest by using IFrames or cookies
• JSON data encoding debugging guide, which covers tools for Firefox and Internet Explorer
• A list of libraries, which includes PHP, .NET, Java, and other libraries that can be used with any server language

Author: Eichorn, Joshua

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Illustration: n

Language: ENG

Title: Understanding AJAX: Using JavaScript to Create Rich Internet Applications

Pages: 00352 (Encrypted ) / 00000 (Encrypted )

On Sale: 2006-08-11

SKU-13/ISBN: 9780132216357

Category: Computers : Programming Languages - JavaScript