AdvancED DOM Scripting: Dynamic Web Design Techniques
TITLE : AdvancED DOM Scripting: Dynamic Web Design Techniques (Advanced) (Paperback)
AUTHOR : by Jeffrey Sambells (Author), Aaron Gustafson (Collaborator)
PUBLISHER : FriendsofED publisher
ISBN : 1590598563
EDITION : 1st
PUB DATE : July 23, 2007
LANGUAGE : English
As a web designer or developer, you know how powerful DOM scripting is
for enhancing web pages and applications, adding dynamic functionality
and improving the user experience. You’ve got a reasonable understanding
of JavaScript and the DOM, but now you want to take your skills further.
This book is all you need to do soit shows you how to add essential
functionality to your web pages, such as on the fly layout and style
changes, interface personalization, maps and search using APIs, visual
effects using JavaScript libraries, and much more.
- Includes a quick recap of the basics, for reference purposes.
- Packed with real world JavaScript solutions from beginning to end
- Written by “Beginning Google Maps” author Jeffrey Sambells, and
includes a case study by JavaScript guru Aaron Gustafson.
What you’ll learn
- A quick recap of the HTML and CSS DOM, methods, and events.
- Shows you the basics of how to add dynamic effects and respond to
user actions to your web sites using CSS and JavaScript.
- Introduces Ajax to the mix, showing you how to use it, and when not
to use it.
- Learn best practices (such as graceful degredation) and productivity
improvement via code reuse (libraries and APIs)
- Create Mashups using search, photo and mapping APIs.
- Build better, more dynamic user experiences using libraries such as
Prototype and Scriptaculous.
Who is this book for? This book is for intermediate to advanced web
designers and developers who already have a reasonable to good knowledge
of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590598563/
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