JavaScript for the Business Developer

by Mike Faust

Overview

In JavaScript for the Business Developer, author Mike Faust builds the case for integrating JavaScript into business applications and then shows the application programmer how JavaScript can help them create dynamic business applications with Web browser interfaces. Developing compelling, user-friendly interfaces is one of the best arguments for using JavaScript when building business applications. Often, an application functions well and offers bulletproof reliability, but it has an awkward or outdated look and feel. JavaScript can easily modernize a GUI interface by making it more dynamic and interactive.

Faust demonstrates techniques to add dynamic elements to applications so they look like they came right "out of the box." For example, JavaScript can be used to display information when a user's mouse hovers over a given field. It also can allow a user to customize elements of the interface-like color schemes, font styles, and even the location of information elements within the application.

JavaScript for the Business Developer is specifically geared for programmers writing common business applications. Spend some time learning this new skill, and you can bring a more dynamic interface to your applications. Let this book be your guide to building powerful, interactive business applications. With JavaScript for the Business Developer you will: Understand the benefits JavaScript can add to business applications, Learn techniques that will modernize application interfaces, Discover how to add function to applications, such as sorting data in a table with one click of the mouse or performing calculations on the fly, Enhance your career with skill in a new technology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781583476895
Publisher:	MC Press, LLC
Publication date:	03/01/2012
Series:	Business Developers series
Sold by:	INDEPENDENT PUB GROUP - EPUB - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Mike Faust is the author of Active Server Pages Primer, iSeries and AS/400 Programmer's Guide to Cool Things, and SQL Built-in Functions and Stored Procedures, and has been an IT professional for more than 10 years. He has written dozens of technical articles for magazines and was a finalist for the 2000 Maggie magazine awards in the Best How-to Article category. He lives in Sanford, Florida.

Table of Contents

Introduction     1
Getting Down to Business     3
The Interface     3
User-Customizable Views     8
Data Manipulation     10
Integrating with Backend Systems     13
Server-Side Interaction     16
Summary     17
JavaScript 101     19
What Is JavaScript?     19
A Script by Any Other Name     21
DOM Implementations Compared     21
Test...Test...Test     22
Determining Browser Environments     23
JavaScript/HTML Interaction     25
Summary     34
JavaScript Language Elements     35
Language Structure and Syntax     35
Declaring Variables and Objects     40
Flow Control     46
Browser/Document Access     52
The "document" Object     63
Document Object Methods     68
Summary     70
Cascading Style Sheets     71
Default/External Style Sheet     72
Internal Style Sheet     73
Inline HTML style Definition     74
Style Sheet Properties     75
Background Properties     75
Border Properties     79
Font Properties     84
List Properties     86
Margin Properties     89
Padding Properties     90
Text Properties     91
CSS and JavaScript     95
Summary     96
JavaScript Functions     97
Form-Validation     97
Required Fields     98
Form Control     105
Dynamic Page Output     107
Image Controls     122
Summary     130
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML     131
AJAX: It's Not Just for Cleaning Anymore     131
AJAX, Step by Step     135
An XML Weather Tool     138
The Wide World of the Web     143
Summary     144
Javascript Language Quick Reference     145
JavaScript Elements     145
CSS Properties     153