Wrox Professional Rich Internet Applications AJAX and Beyond

• Through the use of hands-on examples and case studies to explain complex technologies, this comprehensive book takes AJAX, Ruby on Rails, and Flash to the next level by combining them into a framework for developing rich Internet applications
• Walks readers through using all aspects of each application, looking at the overall architecture and then breaking down the client-side and server-side technologies, while still maintaining a focus on the desired functionality of an application
• Also includes coverage of such various technologies as DHTML, JavaScript, XSLT, Java, Python, PHP, and more

Table of Contents

Introduction.
Part I: An Introduction to RIAs.
Chapter 1: What Characterizes Rich Internet Applications?
Chapter 2: RIA Foundations.
Chapter 3: The Programmable Web: The Mashup Ecosystem.
Chapter 4: Getting Started: Creating Your First RIA.
Part II: RIAs Explored.
Chapter 5: Debugging the Client Side.
Chapter 6: The Model-View-Controller (MVC) Pattern.
Chapter 7: JavaScript Library Survey.
Chapter 8: Compiling to JavaScript.
Chapter 9: An Introduction to ideaStax.
Part III: RIA Development in Depth.
Chapter 10: Form Validation.
Chapter 11: Form Usability.
Chapter 12: Drag and Drop.
Chapter 13: User Interaction, Effects, and Animation.
Chapter 14: Tagging and Rating (I): Creating an Infrastructure.
Chapter 15: Tagging and Rating (II): Using Social Capability.
Part IV: Advanced Selected Topics.
Chapter 16: Providing an API.
Chapter 17: RIA Widgets.
Chapter 18: Rich Immersive Environments.
Part V: Appendix.
Appendix: Dojo Validation Functions and Flags.
Index.

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