AJAX Revolution

1. The AJAX Revolution

• The Paradigm Shift
• Classic Web Applications
• Send Input via Forms
• Get Output through Pages
• Capabilities and Drawbacks
• AJAX-Based Web Applications
• What Is AJAX, Anyway?
• Update Pages via Script
• The Document Object Model
• The Role of Rich Browsers

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Head Rush Ajax

Sick of creating web sites that reload every time a user moves the mouse? Tired of servers that wait around to respond to users' requests for movie tickets? It sounds like you need a little (or maybe a lot of) Ajax in your life. Asynchronous programming lets you turn your own websites into smooth, slick, responsive applications that make your users feel like they're back on the information superhighway, not stuck on a dial-up backroad.

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PHP Oracle Web Development: Data processing, Security, Caching, XML, Web Services, and Ajax

This practical book for PHP/Oracle developers is built around well explained, easy-to-follow example code to build robust, efficient, secure solutions covering popular current topics on using PHP with Oracle. Assuming no special skill level, experienced author Yuli Vasiliev shows how to install and configure PHP and Oracle; connect PHP to Oracle; move application business logic to Oracle; build transactional applications; use security features; improve performance with caching; employ XML features; implement SOAP web services; build Ajax-driven PHP/Oracle solutions. Building and deploying PHP applications on Oracle Database combines the power and robustness of Oracle with the easy, rapid development of open-source PHP to achieve high-performance, scalable, reliable data-driven web applications with minimal effort. Unlike some other databases, Oracle allows building the key business logic of PHP applications inside the database, moving data processing from web server to database server

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Adapting to Web Standards CSS and Ajax for Big Sites

After learning the language of design, how does one effectively use standards-based technologies to create visually strong Web sites? The full-color Professional Web Standards Design and Development gives developers a peek into the process of the best designers in the world through the work of high profile, real-world Web sites that made them famous. The book focuses on deconstructing these top-tier large-scale sites with particular attention given to deconstructing CSS.

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The AJAX Core Engine

• The AJAX Core Engine
• The XMLHttpRequest Object
• The Internet Explorer Object
• The Mozilla Counterpart
• XMLHttpRequest in Internet Explorer 7
• Roll Your Own (Little) AJAX Framework
• Executing an Out-of-Band Call from an ASP.NET Page
• Displaying Results
• An HTTP Object Model
• Behavior and Capabilities
• Sending a Request
• Receiving a Response
• The Switch to the Document Object Model
• Representation of a Document
• DOM Implementation
• Be Pragmatic: DHTML vs. DOM
• Be Pragmatic: Use Events
• Existing AJAX Frameworks for ASP.NET
• ASP.NET Script Callbacks
• The AJAX.NET Professional Library
• The Anthem.NET Framework
• The ComfortASP.NET Framework
• 28 Part I ASP.NET AJAX Building Blocks
• The Telerik r.a.d.controls for ASP.NET Framework
• The ComponentArt Web.UI Framework
• Infragistics’s NetAdvantage for ASP.NET AJAX
• Categorizing AJAX Frameworks

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Adapting to Web Standards CSS and Ajax for Big Sites

After
learning the language of design, how does one effectively use
standards-based technologies to create visually strong Web sites? The
full-color Professional Web Standards Design and Development gives
developers a peek into the process of the best designers in the world
through the work of high profile, real-world Web sites that made them
famous. The book focuses on deconstructing these top-tier large-scale
sites with particular attention given to deconstructing CSS.

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