
- 680 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Ajax in Action
About this book
Val's Blog "A tremendously useful field guide specifically written for developers down in the trenches...waiting for the killer solution..."Web users are getting tired of the traditional web experience. They get frustrated losing their scroll position; they get annoyed waiting for refresh; they struggle to reorient themselves on every new page. And the list goes on. With asynchronous JavaScript and XML, known as "Ajax, " you can give them a better experience. Once users have experienced an Ajax interface, they hate to go back. Ajax is new way of thinking that can result in a flowing and intuitive interaction with the user. Ajax in Action helps you implement that thinking--it explains how to distribute the application between the client and the server (hint: use a "nested MVC" design) while retaining the integrity of the system. You will learn how to ensure your app is flexible and maintainable, and how good, structured design can help avoid problems like browser incompatibilities. Along the way it helps you unlearn many old coding habits. Above all, it opens your mind to the many advantages gained by placing much of the processing in the browser. If you are a web developer who has prior experience with web technologies, this book is for you. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
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Table of contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- Part 1. Rethinking the web application
- Chapter 1. A new design for the Web
- Chapter 2. First steps with Ajax
- Chapter 3. Introducing order to Ajax
- Part 2. Core techniques
- Chapter 4. The page as an application
- Chapter 5. The role of the server
- Part 3. Professional Ajax
- Chapter 6. The user experience
- Chapter 7. Security and Ajax
- Chapter 8. Performance
- Part 4. Ajax by example
- Chapter 9. Dynamic double combo
- Chapter 10. Type-ahead suggest
- Chapter 11. The enhanced Ajax web portal
- Chapter 12. Live search using XSLT
- Chapter 13. Building stand-alone applications with Ajax
- Appendix A. The Ajax craftsperson’s toolkit
- Appendix B. JavaScript for object-oriented programmers
- Appendix C. Ajax frameworks and libraries
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings