O’Reilly Media
By Anthony T. Holdener III
ISBN: 9780596528386
February 2008
$49.99 US
992 pages
Is Ajax a new technology, or the same old stuff web developers have been using for years? Both, actually. This book demonstrates not only how tried-and-true web standards make Ajax possible, but how these older technologies allow you to give sites a decidedly modern Web 2.0 feel. This book explains how to use standards like JavaScript, XML, CSS, and XHTML, along with the XMLHttpRequest object, to build browser-based web applications that function like desktop programs. You get a complete background on what goes into today’s web sites and applications, and learn to leverage these tools along with Ajax for advanced browser searching, web services, mashups, and more. You discover how to turn a web browser and web site into a true application, and why developing with Ajax is faster, easier and cheaper.
friends of ED
By Jeremy Keith & Jeffrey Sambells
ISBN: 9781430233893
December 2010
$34.99 US
330 pages
There are three main technologies married together to create usable, standards-compliant web designs: XHTML for data structure, Cascading Style Sheets for styling your data, and JavaScript for adding dynamic effects and manipulating structure on the fly using the Document Object Model. This book is about the latter of the three. This book gives you everything you need to start using JavaScript and the Document Object Model to enhance your web pages with client-side dynamic effects. We start off by giving you a basic crash course in JavaScript and the DOM, then move on to provide you with several real world examples built up from scratch including dynamic image galleries and dynamic menus, and show you how to manipulate web page styles using the CSS DOM, and create markup on the fly.
New Riders
By Charles Wyke-Smith
ISBN: 9780321678539
August 2009
$44.99 US
312 pages
JavaScript is the brains of your Web page—it enables you to modify a document’s structure, styling, and content in response to user actions without requesting new pages from the server. This book teaches you how to master this powerful and elegant language so you can develop intuitive user interactions that take the user experience to new levels of sophistication and responsiveness. Today’s application-like Web experiences (such as Salesforce.com and Google Maps) and Web 2.0 sites (such as Flickr.com and Twitter) are powered by JavaScript and Ajax. Using the techniques shown in this book, you will be able to start creating similar experiences in the sites you design.
Apress
By Frank Zammetti
ISBN: 9788181287137
April 2007
576 pages
$44.99 US
This book is ideal for web developers already experienced in JavaScript who want to take their knowledge to the next level. It presents 10 complete example projects for you to learn from and adapt for use in your own work. The book starts with a quick recap of the fundamentals of modern JavaScript development before moving right along to the applications. For each application, you are taken through the planning, design, and implementation stages. Over the course of the book, author Frank Zammetti covers JavaScript best practices, Ajax techniques, and some of the most popular JavaScript libraries, such as Prototype, Script.aculo.us, and the Yahoo YUI. One of the main premises of this book is to help you learn by example so you can then apply your knowledge to your own projects. This book will save you countless hours of development time and help further your JavaScript knowledge!
Apress
By Jonathan Snook, Aaron Gustafson, Stuart Langridge, Dan Webb
ISBN: 9781590597644
September 2007
$39.99 US
221 pages
If you’re a web developer with previous JavaScript and DOM scripting experience, this book is perfect for you to take your knowledge up to the next level. By reading this book, you should have a greater understanding of how JavaScript works and be able to use advanced concepts such as closures and event delegation to build more flexible applications for the Web. You’ll walk away with a greater appreciation for JavaScript libraries and how they can simplify and speed up your development. You’ll also be able to implement Ajax effectively into your site, create special effects, use JavaScript libraries, and know how best to apply these libraries to your projects.
Wrox
By Nicholas C. Zakas, Jeremy McPeak & Joe Fawcett
ISBN: 978-0470109496
March 2007
$39.99 US
623 pages
Professional Ajax 2nd Edition provides a developer-level tutorial of Ajax techniques, patterns, and use cases. It is written for Web application developers looking to enhance the usability of their web sites and web applications and intermediate JavaScript developers looking to further understand the language. Readers should have familiarity with XML, XSLT, Web Services, PHP or C#, HTML, CSS. This book is not aimed at beginners without a basic understanding of the aforementioned technologies. Also, a good understanding of JavaScript is vitally important to understanding this book.
Mike Murach & Associates
By Ray Harris
ISBN: 9781890774554
August 2009
$54.50 US
764 pages
Want to create websites that deliver the fast response times, dynamic user interfaces, and special effects that today’s users expect? Then this is the book for you! Whether you’re just starting out in JavaScript or whether you’re ready to move into DOM scripting, it gives you the skills you need. The first half of this book is a course in JavaScript essentials. Then, the second half is a course in DOM scripting that gives you a clear understanding of how DOM scripting works, how JavaScript underlies it, and how to use it to build applications that run slide shows, use drop-down menus, rotate headlines, sort tables, provide animation, and more! That means you can gain basic to expert skills in a single book. So don’t wait to become an expert web developer, get started on this book.
For Dummies
By Andy Harris
ISBN: 9780470417997
December 2009
$29.99 US
496 pages
If you want to build Web pages that offer real value to your site’s visitors, JavaScript and AJAX are top tools for the job. Even if you’re new to Web programming, this book helps you create sites any designer will admire. With easy-to-understand steps and an emphasis on free tools, you’ll be able to jump right into building a site using the same techniques as the pros.
Peachpit Press
Tom Negrino & Dori Smith
ISBN: 9780321564085
October 2008
$39.99 US
544 pages
This task-based, visual reference guide has been fully revised. It uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to give beginning and intermediate Web designers what they need to know to learn JavaScript. Readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the programming language, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. In this updated seventh edition, readers will find new information on Ajax design and modern coding techniques.
O’Reilly Media
By Michael Mahemoff
ISBN: 9780596101800
$44.99 US
656 pages
Ajax, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, exploded onto the scene in the spring of 2005 and remains the hottest story among web developers. With its rich combination of technologies, Ajax provides a strong foundation for creating interactive web applications with XML or JSON-based web services by using JavaScript in the browser to process the web server response. This book shows you best practices that can dramatically improve your web development projects. It investigates how others have successfully dealt with conflicting design principles in the past and then relays that information directly to you. This book will also get you up to speed with core Ajax technologies, such as XMLHttpRequest, the DOM, and JSON. Technical discussions are followed by code examples so you can see for yourself just what is-and isn’t-possible with Ajax. This handy reference will help you to produce high-quality Ajax architectures, streamline web application performance, and improve the user experience.
O’Reilly Media
By Shelley Powers
ISBN: 9780596529369
$34.99 US
400 pages
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. For instance, if you have a traditional web application based on submitting a form to update a table, you can enhance it by adding the capability to update the table with changes to the form fields, without actually having to submit the form. That’s just one example. This book is for those of you more interested in extending existing applications than in creating Rich Internet Applications (RIA). You already know the "business-side" of applications-web forms, server-side driven pages, and static content-and now you want to make your web pages livelier, more fun, and much more interactive.
O’Reilly Media
By Jesse Skinner
ISBN: 9780596557492
$9.99 US
57 pages
This book is about making web applications that work for everyone all of the time, even if you have JavaScript turned off, or you’re using a mobile phone or a screen reader, or however you happen to be using the Web. It’s about the separation of behavior (JavaScript), content (HTML), and presentation (CSS). This short cut will focus on the practical benefits of using Ajax and JavaScript unobtrusively and show you that unobtrusive web development and progressive enhancement benefit both web developers and users of the Web. You’ll get to see many simple examples of building web interfaces that are unobtrusive. You’ll quickly see that it is actually very easy to make web applications that everyone can use. When you’re finished reading this short cut, you will be able to convince anyone why developing unobtrusively is the best way to build a site with JavaScript and Ajax.
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