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- Intro
- Adding Ajax
- SPECIAL OFFER: Upgrade this ebook with O'Reilly
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- Preface
- Audience
- Contents of This Book
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Using Code Examples
- We'd Like to Hear from You
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Getting Ready to Make a Move to Ajax
- 1.1. The Technologies That Are Ajax
- 1.1.1. A Natural Progression
- 1.1.2. The Technologies: Book View
- 1.2. Start Clean
- 1.2.1. XHTML and HTML Validators
- 1.2.2. CSS Validators
- 1.2.3. Checking Accessibility
- 1.3. Converting Tables to CSS Layouts
- 1.4. Continuing the Conversion: Element by Element
- 1.5. Dealing with Browser-Specific Quirks
- 1.5.1. Controlling the Page and Adding Ajax
- 1.5.2. Taking Control
- 1.6. Understanding Your Client Base
- 1.6.1. Discovering Your Clients
- 1.6.2. An Open-Door Policy
- 1.6.3. The Plan
- 1.7. Designing a Framework for Your Site
- 1.7.1. Meet Your Reader
- 1.7.2. Safe and Secure
- 1.7.3. Tight Coupling and Loose Coupling
- 1.8. Progressive Enhancement Versus Massive Overhaul
- 2. The Ajax Bits
- 2.1. The Web Application
- 2.1.1. The XMLHttpRequest Object Structure
- 2.2. Preparing the Object for Use
- 2.3. Preparing and Sending a Request
- 2.3.1. HTTP GET, POST, and RESTful Friends
- 2.3.2. The Parameters
- 2.3.3. Sending the Request
- 2.4. Processing the Ajax Response
- 2.4.1. A Quick and Easy Response: HTML Fragment and innerHTML
- 2.4.2. Working with a More Traditional XML
- 2.4.3. Simplifying Processing with JSON
- 2.4.4. (X)HTML Fragment
- 2.5. Endpoints, the JavaScript Sandbox, and Widgets
- 2.5.1. JSON Endpoints and Dynamic Script Creation
- 2.5.2. Dynamic Scripting with XML
- 2.6. That Security Stuff
- 2.7. A First Look at Performance
- 2.8. One Last Word on Asynchronous Versus Synchronous
- 3. Ajax Tools and Terminology
- 3.1. Prototype
- 3.1.1. The JavaScript Prototype Property
- 3.1.2. Associative Arrays and the Risks of Prototype
- 3.1.3. External Libraries: Risks and Benefits
- 3.2. script.aculo.us
- 3.2.1. The script.aculo.us Effects
- 3.3. Rico
- 3.3.1. Ajax Pagination
- 3.3.2. The Rico Weather Widget
- 3.3.3. The JavaScript Sandbox and Proxies
- 3.4. Dojo
- 3.4.1. Event Handler Chaining
- 3.4.2. Declarative HTML
- 3.4.3. Using JavaScript to Bypass Nonstandard Attributes
- 3.5. Other Libraries
- 3.5.1. jQuery
- 3.5.2. MochiKit
- 3.5.3. The Yahoo! UI
- 3.5.4. mooTools and moo.fx
- 3.5.5. The Sarissa Library
- 3.5.6. WZ_jsGraphics and qForms
- 3.5.7. And More
- 4. Interactive Effects
- 4.1. Ajax-Friendly Event Handling
- 4.1.1. Maintainable Event Handling
- 4.1.2. Mashable Event Handling
- 4.1.3. The Dojo Event System the Target Object
- 4.2. Just-In-Time Information
- 4.2.1. Form Help
- 4.2.2. Tooltips
- 4.3. In-Page Previews
- 4.3.1. Live Echo Preview
- 4.3.2. Ajax Preview
- 4.4. Color Fades for Success or Failure
- 4.4.1. Timers and Animations
- 4.4.2. Ajaxian Timers
- 4.4.3. Creating a Flashing Notice
- 5. Space: The Final Frontier
- 5.1. Horizontal Spacing: The Accordion
- 5.1.1. Creating the Effect
- 5.1.2. A Transitioning Accordion
- 5.1.2.1. Getting an element's height and width
- 5.1.2.2. Finishing the transition
- 5.1.3. Using Prepackaged Accordions
- 5.1.4. Packaging the Accordion Code
- 5.1.5. Expand and Request: Mixing Accordions and Ajax Calls
- 5.2. Tabbed Pages
- 5.2.1. A Straightforward Look at Tabbed Content
- 5.2.2. Packaging Revisited: Creating Generic Tabs
- 5.2.3. Using the YUI TabView
- 5.2.4. Tabbed Content and Accessibility
- 5.3. Overlays
- 6. Dynamic Data
- 6.1. In-Place Editing
- 6.1.1. Adding an Editable Field
- 6.1.2. Diving into the Client
- 6.1.3. The Server Side of the Application
- 6.2. In-Place Editing: Performance, Security, and Accessibility
- 6.2.1. Preventing SQL Injection
- 6.2.2. Performance and Accessibility
- 6.2.3. Improvements
- 6.3. Highlighting Changes
- 6.3.1. Signaling a Deletion
- 6.3.2. Polling and Highlighting Updates
- 6.4. Revisiting In-Page Update Accessibility One More Time
- 6.4.1. Revisiting the In-Page Deletion
- 6.4.2. Revisiting In-Place Additions
- 6.5. Live Validation
- 6.6. Performance and Two-Phase Commits
- 6.6.1. Ajax That Plays Well with Others
- 6.6.2. Ajax, Caching, and Database Transactions
- 6.7. External Library Data Effects
- 6.7.1. Building and Maintaining Forms
- 6.7.2. Drag-and-Drop Sorting with script.aculo.us
- 6.7.3. Adobe Spry's Validation
- 6.7.4. Other Library Data Effects
- 7. History, Navigation, and Place with Single-Page Applications
- 7.1. Introducing the Challenger: Paged Content
- 7.1.1. Creating the Slideshow Infrastructure
- 7.1.2. Creating a Photo Slideshow
- 7.1.3. Splitting Text
- 7.1.4. Paging Through Data
- 7.2. Remembering Place
- 7.2.1. Remembering Place and Page Fragments
- 7.2.2. Remembering Place in a Timely Manner
- 7.2.3. The Difference Between Clever and Smart
- 7.3. Old and New Persistence: Side by Side
- 7.4. The New Page View
- 7.5. Post-Mortem
- 8. Adding Advanced Visual Effects
- 8.1. Advanced CSS Tricks
- 8.1.1. Rounded Corners
- 8.1.2. Sliders and Scrollbars
- 8.1.3. Web-Friendly Menus
- 8.1.4. Draggable Container
- 8.2. Scalable Vector Graphics
- 8.2.1. Embedding SVG
- 8.2.2. Adding Script
- 8.2.3. SVG Inline
- 8.3. SVG Quick View
- 8.3.1. Basic Shapes and Attributes
- 8.3.2. Defs, Gradients, Filters, and Effects
- 8.4. Mixer: SVG and Ajax
- 8.4.1. HTML5 Canvas
- 8.5. The Future of Graphics
- 9. Mashup Your Site
- 9.1. Mapping with Google
- 9.1.1. Google Maps: Quick and Easy
- 9.1.2. Get There from Here
- 9.2. A Second Service: Flickr
- 9.2.1. Creating the Mashup
- 9.2.2. Creating Photo Objects and Revisiting Prototype Versus Localized Functions
- 9.2.3. Converting Flickr/Google to Tabbed Pages
- 9.3. Adding Technorati to Our Mashup
- 9.4. Reengineering the Mashup
- 9.4.1. Accessible Tabs
- 9.4.2. Google Maps, IE, and Knowing When to Let Go
- 9.4.3. Abstracting the Web Services
- 9.5. The Reengineered Clients
- 9.5.1. The Script-Free Application
- 9.5.2. The New Ajax Client
- 9.6. Summarizing Mashups
- 10. Scaling, Infrastructure, and Starting from Scratch
- 10.1. Frameworks: Tight Versus Loose Coupling
- 10.2. The Web Service: Resource and Security
- 10.3. Ajax Libraries: Homegrown or Borrowed
- 10.4. Designing Ajax from the Ground Up
- 10.4.1. Packaging Your Functionality into Units
- 10.4.2. Maintenance and Testing
- 10.4.3. Memory Leaks, Local Storage, and Robustness
- 10.4.4. Reducing Every Effect to Its Simplest
- 10.4.5. Critical Areas of a Site
- 10.4.6. Don't Over-Mash
- 10.4.7. A Multitude of Devices
- 10.4.8. Limit "Cool
- 10.4.9. But Cool's Good, Too
- 10.5. Frameworks du Jour
- 10.5.1. ASP.NET and AJAX
- 10.5.2. Java and GWT
- 10.5.3. PHP Frameworks
- 10.5.4. Python, GWT, and Django
- 10.5.5. Hey! It's Perl!
- 10.5.6. Ruby on Rails, Ajax, and Tight Coupling
- 10.6. Go Forth and Ajax
- About the Author
- Colophon
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