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Manning Publications Ajax in Action
How to create the next generation of cutting-edge web interfaces.Ajax exploded on the scene in the Spring of 2005 when a web site defined the term and Google released Google Maps and GMail, powerful examples of what Ajax can do. Ajax uses familiar web technologies - DHTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript - in radically different ways resulting in a much richer user experience. The key to success lies in knowing how to orchestrate them as a coherent whole, splitting off parts of what is normally done by the server and putting it into the browser for instantaneous response to user input. Ajax allows a new breed of web applications with the rich expressiveness of desktop applications.This book helps developers realize that promise - it explains the big picture and how to unlearn many old coding habits. It explains the design patterns and best practices to create a live interface for the user, not get in his way. It also discusses important Ajax issues: how to make good use of ne
£43.65
Manning Publications Ajax in Practice
Ajax gives web developers the potential to create rich user-centered internetapplications. But Ajax also adds a new level of complexity and sophistication tothose applications. Ajax in Practice tackles Ajax head-on, providing countlesshands-on techniques and tons of reusable code to address the specific issuesdevelopers face when building Ajax-driven solutions.After a brief overview of Ajax, this book takes the reader through dozens ofworking examples, all presented in an easy-to-use cookbook format. Readerswill learn how to implement drag-and-drop interfaces and will discover how tocreate effective navigation strategies for their applications. Unlike a traditionalcookbook, though, Ajax in Practice provides a thorough discussion of eachtechnique presented and shows how the individual components can beconnected to create powerful solutions. A fun mash-up chapter concludes the
£42.65
Manning Publications Prototype and Scriptaculous Quickly
As experience with Ajax increases, developers want the standard Ajax capabilities they repeatedly use to be preprogrammed for them—and that's exactly what Ajax libraries do for them. They reduce the pain of handling cross-browser inconsistencies, they add useful language features, and provide sophisticated functionality. Of these, Prototype is the most popular JavaScript and Ajax framework for low-level coding. Scriptaculous builds on Prototype to provide popular high-level user interface features such as animation, drag and drop, and prebuilt widgets. Together, they free the developer up to concentrate on building the application. They make a rich user experience easy to achieve. This book guides the reader through the Prototype and Scriptaculous libraries feature-by-feature. In just 350 pages, it shows over 100 small working examples that help readers explore the libraries, and they develop a web-based image gallery that teaches them how to use Prototype and Scriptaculous in the real-world.
£42.76
