Ajax can bring many advantages to an existing web application without forcing you to redo the whole thing. This book explains how you can add Ajax to enhance, rather than replace, the way your application works. You already know the "business-side" of applications-web forms, server-side driven pages, and static content. This book demonstrates how to make your web pages livelier, more fun, and much more interactive.
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Chapter 1 Getting Ready to Make a Move to Ajax
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The Technologies That Are Ajax
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Start Clean
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Converting Tables to CSS Layouts
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Continuing the Conversion: Element by Element
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Dealing with Browser-Specific Quirks
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Understanding Your Client Base
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Designing a Framework for Your Site
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Progressive Enhancement Versus Massive Overhaul
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Chapter 2 The Ajax Bits
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The Web Application
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Preparing the Object for Use
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Preparing and Sending a Request
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Processing the Ajax Response
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Endpoints, the JavaScript Sandbox, and Widgets
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That Security Stuff
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A First Look at Performance
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One Last Word on Asynchronous Versus Synchronous
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Chapter 3 Ajax Tools and Terminology
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Prototype
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script.aculo.us
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Rico
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Dojo
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Other Libraries
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Chapter 4 Interactive Effects
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Ajax-Friendly Event Handling
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Just-In-Time Information
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In-Page Previews
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Color Fades for Success or Failure
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Chapter 5 Space: The Final Frontier
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Horizontal Spacing: The Accordion
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Tabbed Pages
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Overlays
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Chapter 6 Dynamic Data
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In-Place Editing
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In-Place Editing: Performance, Security, and Accessibility
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Highlighting Changes
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Revisiting In-Page Update Accessibility One More Time
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Live Validation
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Performance and Two-Phase Commits
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External Library Data Effects
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Chapter 7 History, Navigation, and Place with Single-Page Applications
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Introducing the Challenger: Paged Content
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Remembering Place
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Old and New Persistence: Side by Side
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The New Page View
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Post-Mortem
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Chapter 8 Adding Advanced Visual Effects
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Advanced CSS Tricks
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Scalable Vector Graphics
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SVG Quick View
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Mixer: SVG and Ajax
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The Future of Graphics
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Chapter 9 Mashup Your Site
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Mapping with Google
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A Second Service: Flickr
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Adding Technorati to Our Mashup
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Reengineering the Mashup
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The Reengineered Clients
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Summarizing Mashups
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Chapter 10 Scaling, Infrastructure, and Starting from Scratch
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Frameworks: Tight Versus Loose Coupling
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The Web Service: Resource and Security
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Ajax Libraries: Homegrown or Borrowed
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Designing Ajax from the Ground Up
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Frameworks du Jour
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Go Forth and Ajax
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Colophon
- Title:
- Adding Ajax
- By:
- Shelley Powers
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media
- Formats:
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- Ebook
- Safari Books Online
- Print Release:
- June 2007
- Ebook Release:
- February 2009
- Pages:
- 400
- Print ISBN:
- 978-0-596-52936-9
- | ISBN 10:
- 0-596-52936-8
- Ebook ISBN:
- 978-0-596-10266-1
- | ISBN 10:
- 0-596-10266-6
The animal on the cover of Adding Ajax is a forked mouse lemur, usually called the fork-marked lemur (Phaner furcifer). Like almost all lemurs, the fork-marked lemur is only found on the island of Madagascar. It is native to the rainforests in the northern and western parts of the country. The fork-marked lemur measures about 18 to 22 inches long, but its tail makes up half of that length. This lemur's name comes from the black markings that run from each eye over the top of its head in the shape of a two-pronged fork. This particular primate depends on gum from the temperate deciduous trees for its sustenance, but will sometimes eat the honeydew from insect larvae as well as insects for protein. The fork-marked lemur is the most vocal of the lemurs, with more than seven documented calls, including ki, kiu, kea (only made by males), hon, as well as alarm, distress, and fighting calls.
Like most animals around the world, the fork-marked lemur's habitat is being threatened by increased land development and farming. Its extinction status is currently near-threatened. However, efforts are being made to preserve this lemur; it can be found at a number of parks and reserves around the country.
