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Combining tried-and-true CSS, XML, and JavaScript technologies, Ajax provides web developers with the ability to create more sophisticated and responsive user interfaces and break free from the click-and-wait standard that has dominated the web since its introduction.
This book discusses the range of request brokers (including the hidden frame technique, iframes, and XMLHttp) and explains when one should be used over another. It helps one learn different Ajax techniques and patterns for executing client-server communication on one`s web site and in web applications.
The information in the book helps gain practical knowledge necessary to implement one?s own Ajax solutions.
Some areas covered from the first edition includes:
Different methods for achieving Ajax communication and when to use each
A variety of Ajax design patterns to use in specific data retrieval circumstances
Techniques for using Ajax with RSS and Atom to produce a web-based news aggregator
How to use JavaScript Object Notation as an alternate data transmission format for Ajax communications
How to create Ajax widgets, such as a weather display and news ticker, that can be included in your web site
This new edition also includes:
Dynamic Script Loading
Using Images
Ajax libraries including Yahoo! Connection Manager and Prototype
Working with RSS and Web search feeds
Persistent HTTP Connections and Client-Side Sockets
Ajax Mapping APIs from Google, Yahoo!, and MSN
Ajax Debugging
Microsoft Atlas
An expanded Ajax web-based email reader case study
Integrated best-practices coverage
ISBN :9788126512065./8126512067
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