Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax: Second Editon

by Russ Ferguson, Christian Heilmann

Overview

Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax is an essential resource for modern JavaScript programming. This completely updated second edition covers everything you need to know to get up-to-speed with JavaScript development and add dynamic enhancements to web pages, right from the basics. As well as focusing on client-side JavaScript, you will also learn how to work with the Browser Object Model, the Document Object Model (DOM), how to use XML and JSON as well as communicate with service side scripts such as PHP. Find out how to:

• Construct good JavaScript syntax following modern coding practices
• Use JavaScript to communicate with the server and retrieve data
• Dynamically manipulate markup, validate forms and deal with images
• Debug applications using features inside the browser

JavaScript is one of the most important technologies on the web. It provides the means to add dynamic functionality to your web pages and serves as the backbone of Ajax-style web development. Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax will take you from being a JavaScript novice to work freely with this important technology - begin your JavaScript journey today! 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430250937
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	08/20/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	388
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

RussFerguson is a freelance developer and instructor inthe New York City area. His interest in computers goes back to Atari Basic, CompuServeand BBS systems in the mid 1980 s. For over 10 years he has been fortunate toteach at Pratt Institute, where subjects have been as diverse as the studentbody. Working in New York has given him the opportunity to work with a diversegroup companies who s projects ranged from, developing real-time chat/videoapplications for start-up s to developing and managing, content managementsystems for established Media and Advertising agencies like MTV and DC Comics.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with JavaScript
2. Data and Decisions
3. From DHTML to DOM Scripting
4. HTML5 and JavaScript
5. Presentation and Behavior (CSS and Event Handling)
6. Common Uses of JavaScript: Image and Windows
7. JavaScript and User Integration: Navigation and Forms
8. Back-End Interaction with Ajax and Node.js
9. Data Validation Techniques
10. Modern JavaScript Case Study: A Dynamic Gallery
11. Using Third-Party JavaScript
12. Appendix A: Debugging JavaScript