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Understanding AJAX: Using JavaScript to Create Rich Internet Applications
By Joshua Eichorn
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub Date: August 11, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-13-221635-3
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-13-221635-7
Pages: 352

Table of Contents | Index

Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Chapter 1. What Is AJAX?

Section 1.1. Rich Internet Applications

Section 1.2. AJAX Defined

Section 1.3. Technologies of AJAX

Section 1.4. Remote Scripting

Section 1.5. Gmail Brings XMLHttpRequest into the Mainstream

Section 1.6. New Name: AJAX

Section 1.7. Summary

Chapter 2. Getting Started

Section 2.1. XMLHttpRequest Overview

Section 2.2. Cross-Browser XMLHttpRequest

Section 2.3. Sending Asynchronous Requests

Section 2.4. AJAX Without XMLHttpRequest

Section 2.5. Fallback Option 1: Sending a Request Using an IFrame

Section 2.6. Fallback Option 2: Sending a Request Using a Cookie

Section 2.7. Summary

Chapter 3. Consuming the Sent Data

Section 3.1. Document-Centric Approaches

Section 3.2. Remote Scripting

Section 3.3. How to Decide on a Request Type

Section 3.4. Summary

Chapter 4. Adding AJAX to Your Web Development Process

Section 4.1. Changes to the Development Cycle

Section 4.2. Integrating AJAX into a Framework

Section 4.3. JavaScript as a Primary Development Language

Section 4.4. Problems Created by the New Development Paradigm

Section 4.5. Advantages to Using a Library

Section 4.6. Reasons to Build Your Own Library

Section 4.7. How Open Source Fits into the Mix

Section 4.8. Use Case for Building: The Firefox Counter

Section 4.9. Use Case for Downloading: An Intranet Web Site

Section 4.10. Summary

Chapter 5. Getting the Most from AJAX

Section 5.1. Goals of AJAX

Section 5.2. Measuring Improvements

Section 5.3. Promises and Problems of Combining AJAX with Other New Technologies

Section 5.4. Summary

Chapter 6. Usability Guidelines

Section 6.1. Defining Usability

Section 6.2. Usability Guidelines

Section 6.3. Common Usability Problems

Section 6.4. Summary

Chapter 7. AJAX Debugging Guide

Section 7.1. Two Sides to Debugging

Section 7.2. Looking at AJAX Communications

Section 7.3. JavaScript Debugging Tools

Section 7.4. JavaScript Exceptions

Section 7.5. Dumping Variables

Section 7.6. Summary

Chapter 8. Libraries Used in Part II: Sarissa, Scriptaculous

Section 8.1. Overview of the Use Cases

Section 8.2. Libraries Used in Part II of This Book

Section 8.3. Sarissa

Section 8.4. Scriptaculous

Section 8.5. Summary

Chapter 9. Libraries Used in Part II: HTML_AJAX

Section 9.1. HTML_AJAX

Section 9.2. Summary

Chapter 10. Speeding Up Data Display

Section 10.1. Overview of the Sun Rise and Set Data Viewer

Section 10.2. Building the Non-AJAX Version of the Sun Rise and Set Viewer

Section 10.3. Problems with the Non-AJAX Viewer

Section 10.4. Improving Viewing with AJAX

Section 10.5. Summary

Chapter 11. Adding an AJAX Login to a Blog

Section 11.1. Why Logins Work Well with AJAX

Section 11.2. Building an AJAX Login

Section 11.3. Extending the Login Form

Section 11.4. Implementing the AJAX Comment Login System Using XML

Section 11.5. Summary

Chapter 12. Building a Trouble-Ticket System

Section 12.1. Trouble-Ticketing System

Section 12.2. AJAX Reliance Scale

Section 12.3. Creating the Back End

Section 12.4. Exporting the Back End

Section 12.5. Building the JavaScript Application

Section 12.6. Login Component

Section 12.7. User-Registration Component

Section 12.8. Account-Editing Component

Section 12.9. Ticket-Creation Component

Section 12.10. Ticket-Editor Component

Section 12.11. My-Tickets Component

Section 12.12. Assign-Tickets Component

Section 12.13. Security Considerations with AJAX Applications

Section 12.14. Comparing Our AJAX-Driven Application against a Standard MVC Model

Section 12.15. Summary

Appendix A. JavaScript AJAX Libraries

Simple AJAX Code-Kit (SACK)

Yahoo! User Interface Library

Appendix B. AJAX Libraries with Server Ties

Multiple Languages

Appendix C. JavaScript DHTML Libraries

Accesskey Underlining Library (AUL)

Dean Edwards IE7

JavaScript Shell

Nifty Corners Cube