Adapting to Web Standards, CSS and Ajax for Big Sites : PDF BooK

ADAPTING TO WEB STANDARDS

by
Christopher Schmitt,
Kimberly Blessing
Rob Cherny
Meryl K. Evans
Kevin Lawver
 and 
Mark Trammell

What Are Web Standards?
Web standards is a term used to mean Web pages built using the open and compatible
recommendations from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and
other standards bodies as opposed to closed, proprietary, corporate feature sets.
These recommendations, combined with modern best practices, exploit the standardized
power of the modern Web browsers that dominate the market today,
as opposed to out-of-date browsers that were feature-rich but inconsistent and
often incompatible. Placing a graphic that reads “This site designed for Netscape
Navigator” on the main page of a Web site should be a thing of the past.
Web standards fail gracefully when encountered by out-of-date browsers. The
standards are also intended to provide greater benefit for accessibility and for
other types of media. These techniques are built with intentional side effects that
can benefit users, the company, and the team responsible for creating the sites.
Whole books have been written on the subject.
 
Basic Benefi ts of Web Standards
Sites built with Web standards have many benefits, right out of the box, virtually
without robust technique or experience. These include

❖ Style and script reuse and consistency
❖ Reduced bandwidth use and caching of style and script files
❖ Faster rendering of pages
❖ Cleaner, easier-to-maintain code
❖ Easier to make accessible for assistive technologies
❖ Easier to make search engine-optimized
❖ Increased compatibility between browser vendors
❖ Improved chances of document legibility for the next generation of browsers
❖ Increased readership for your site!

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Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX : PDF BooK

Microsoft Press Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX (2007)




How This Book Is Organized
The book is divided into three parts: an overview of the platform and its building blocks, techniques to effectively enhance existing sites, and client-centric development. In the first part, you’ll learn the basics of the AJAX model and the extensions made to the JavaScript language to back it. The second part is dedicated to the elements in the framework that you use to add new capabilities to existing server controls and to transform existing classic ASP.NET pages into full-fledged AJAX pages. Finally, the third part covers tools and techniques that express the real power of AJAX applications—out-of-band calls to server code.

System Requirements
You’ll need the following hardware and software to build and run the code samples for
this book:
■ Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows
Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, or Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4
■ Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition or Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition
■ Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express (included with Visual Studio 2005) or Microsoft
SQL Server 2005
■ 600-MHz Pentium or compatible processor (1-GHz Pentium recommended)
■ 192 MB of RAM (256 MB or more recommended)
■ Video monitor (800 x 600 or higher resolution) with at least 256 colors (1024 x 768
High Color 16-bit recommended)
■ Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device

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ASP.NET and AJAX, Architecting Web Applications : PDF BooK

ASP.NET and AJAX, Architecting Web Applications (2009)



Who This Book Is For
I believe that this book is ideal reading for any professionals involved with the ASP.NET
platform and who are willing or needing to fi nd a solution that delivers a modern and rich
user experience.

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Ajax: The Complete Reference : PDF BooK

Ajax: The Complete Reference

by
Thomas A. Powell


One-way Communication
A simple use of remote JavaScript is to spawn a request to the server to indicate that some
event has happened, such as an error condition or a particular user activity like clicking
a link to visit another site. In these scenarios the request is considered one-way, as it may
not be important that a response be returned to the client.

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Ajax A Beginner’s Guide : PDF BooK

Ajax A Beginner’s Guide

by
Steven Holzner
New York



What You Need
To read this book, you should have a good knowledge of HTML. You don’t have to be an
HTML rock star, but you should know enough to put together a basic web page. If the level of HTML taken for granted in this book leaves you feeling lost, take a look at a good introductory HTML book before proceeding.

As far as the software side is concerned, you need a browser that can run JavaScript, such
as Internet Explorer or Firefox. Ajax revolves around browsers, so you need to have access to an Internet browser to use this book profitably and follow along with the examples.
It’s not totally necessary to do any server-side programming in this book, so you won’t
need to understand PHP as it’s introduced in this book. However, I do recommend that you
work with an Internet service provider (ISP) that will let you support PHP scripts online. If you don’t do any server-side programming, your Ajax experience will be extremely limited and only let you download preexisting files from the server. When you use PHP on the server, you can send data from the browser to the server (for example, the ZIP code in which a prospective buyer is looking for houses) and use that data to tailor the response that you send back to the browser for display.

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GWT in Action, Easy Ajax with the Google Web Toolkit : PDF BooK

Manning GWT in Action, Easy Ajax with the Google Web Toolkit (2007)
by
ROBERT HANSON
ADAM TACY


To my son, David
Thank you for letting me shorten playtime so many times,
so that Daddy could work on his book.
—RH

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To my parents
Everything I have achieved is because of something you did for me.
Thank you.
—AT

ASP.NET AJAX in Action : PDF BooK

ASP.NET AJAX in Action

by
ALESSANDRO GALLO
DAVID BARKOL
RAMA KRISHNA VAVILALA



Who should read this book?
This book is targeted at ASP.NET developers who want to master the ASP.NET AJAX
Extensions. Even if we wrote this book with the beginner and intermediate developers
in mind, the advanced developer could benefit from it, due to the new concepts
and programming techniques brought to the ASP.NET world by the ASP.NET
AJAX framework.
A little knowledge of the Ajax paradigm and the JavaScript programming language
is desirable in order to fully understand the material presented in the book,
but we do provide a good amount of background material in order for you to
quickly become familiar with the concepts involved if you are a novice. We’d like
to stress the fact that this book is specific to the ASP.NET AJAX framework, which is
an implementation of many common Ajax patterns. Consequently, you won’t find
a general and comprehensive discussion about Ajax and its techniques and patterns.
If you’re new to the Ajax world, we strongly recommend reading an additional
book about general Ajax concepts that is a framework-agnostic book. We
particularly enjoyed reading Ajax in Action, written by Dave Crane, Eric Pascarello,
and Darren James and published by Manning in October 2005.
 
Roadmap:
This book is divided into four parts and is intended to guide you from the initial
stages of developing with ASP.NET AJAX all the way to becoming an expert.
Part 1, which spans chapters 1–6, covers the basics of ASP.NET AJAX and its two
development models, the server-centric development model and the client-centric
development model. In these chapters, you’ll roll up your sleeves and become
familiar with the essentials of Ajax programming and the ASP.NET AJAX infrastructure.
You’ll learn about the components that make up the framework and how to
use it effectively to enhance web applications.

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