Ajax In Practice

Ajax in Practice tackles Ajax head-on, providing countless hands-on techniques and tons of reusable code to address the specific issues developers face when building Ajax-driven solutions. After a brief overview of Ajax, this book takes the reader through dozens of working examples, presented in an easy-to-use cookbook format. Readers will learn how to implement drag-and-drop interfaces and discover how to create effective navigation strategies for their applications. Unlike a traditional cookbook, Ajax in Practice provides a thorough discussion of each technique presented and shows how the individual components can be connected to create powerful solutions. A fun "mash-up" chapter concludes the book. Throughout the book, the examples chosen are interesting, entertaining, and practical.

Table of contents :
Part I Fundamentals of Ajax
· Embracing Ajax
· How to talk Ajax
· Object-oriented JavaScript and Prototype
· Open source Ajax toolkits
Part II Ajax Best Practices
· Handling events
· Form validation and submission
· Content navigation
· Handling back, refresh, and undo
· Drag and drop
· Being user-friendly
· State management and caching
· Mashing it up with Ajax

Market Description :
This book is aimed at web developers who want their applications to be the best-in-class examples of rich user interfaces, leveraging Ajax technology to achieve this goal. Novices to Ajax will find the first two chapters helpful in getting kick-started into the World of asynchronous requests; this book is primarily aimed at developers with at least a basic background in developing web applications and in the rudimentary use of JavaScript to effect client-side activity. Web Developers interested in expanding their coding skills not only with new technologies, but also with techniques and patterns that make the best use of that technology might find this book valuable.

About Author :
Ajax in Practice boasts a team of authors including Dave Crane, leading Ajax authority and best-selling author of Manning's Ajax in Action, Bear Bibeault of Java Ranch, Jord Sonneveld of Google, Chris Gray of ClearNova, Ram Venkataraman of JBoss, Joe Walker, creator of DWR and Ted Goddard of IceFaces. Collectively, this group has thousands of hours putting Ajax to work in real-world products and solutions.