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Book Description

Applied jQuery teaches readers how to quickly start writing application interfaces. The beautifully designed book offers practical techniques and provides lots of real-world advice and guidance. The Author, Jay Blanchard, has practical experience working in the field and wastes no time getting to the instruction, taking the reader from a beginner to a proficient interface programmer by the end of the book.

Today’s Web developers are are expected to be well versed in many different technologies. While it is good to have a shelf full of books that focus on single technologies, having a book that shows developers how to combine these technologies is key. This book takes the reader beyond the fundamental mechanics of individual technologies to illustrate the value and power of combining jQuery and PHP with templates and layouts handled by HTML and CSS. Beginning to intermediate web developers designing and developing web application interfaces and web sites will learn how to blend these ingredient technologies, as well as how to secure jQuery.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introducing jQuery
Chapter 2. Working with Events
Chapter 3. Making Forms Pop
Chapter 4. Being Effective with AJAX
Chapter 5. Applying jQuery Widgets
Chapter 6. Creating Application Interfaces Download Now »

Book Description

This task-based, visual-reference guide has been fully revised and uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to give beginning and intermediate scripters what they need to know to keep their skills up-to-date. Readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the programming language, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. In this updated eighth edition, readers will find new information on using frameworks and libraries–such as jQuery–and modern coding techniques.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Getting Acquainted with JavaScript
Chapter 2: Start Me Up!
Chapter 3: Your First Web App
Chapter 4: Working with Images
Chapter 5: Windows and Frames
Chapter 6: Form Handling
Chapter 7: Forms and Regular Expressions
Chapter 8: Handling Events
Chapter 9: JavaScript and Cookies
Chapter 10: Objects and the DOM
Chapter 11: Making Your Pages Dynamic Download Now »

Book Description

JavaScript is the brains of your Web page—it enables you to modify a document’s structure, styling, and content in response to user actions without requesting new pages from the server. Scriptin’ with JavaScript and Ajax teaches you how to master this powerful and elegant language so you can develop intuitive user interactions that take the user experience to new levels of sophistication and responsiveness.

Today’s application-like Web experiences (such as Salesforce.com and Google Maps) and Web 2.0 sites (such as Flickr.com and Twitter) are powered by JavaScript and Ajax. Using the techniques shown in this book, you will be able to start creating similar experiences in the sites you design.

Scriptin’ with JavaScript and Ajax will teach you how to:

• Start developing with JavaScript fast!
• Write lightweight but powerful object-oriented code
• Modify the Document Object Model
• “Progressively enhance” your pages with JavaScript to provide the highest levels of accessibility to all users
• Learn sophisticated techniques for making your pages respond to user actions
• Use the downloadable Scriptin’ library of helper functions to speed development and ensure cross-browser compatibility
• Use Ajax scripting techniques to update specific areas of the page with data from the server Download Now »

Book Description

MooTools is a JavaScript framework that abstracts the JavaScript language. JavaScript itself, complex in syntax, provides the tools to write a layer of content interaction for each different browser. MooTools abstracts those individual, browser-specific layers to allow cross-browser scripting in an easy-to-read and easy-to-remember syntax.

Animation and interaction, once the domain of Flash, are being taken by storm by the MooTools JavaScript framework, which can cause size, shape, color, and opacity to transition smoothly. Discover how to use AJAX to bring data to today’s web page users who demand interactivity without clunky page refreshes. When searching for animation and interactivity solutions that work, MooTools 1.3 Cookbook has individual, reusable code examples that get you running fast!

MooTools 1.3 Cookbook readies programmers to animate, perform AJAX, and attach event listeners in a simple format where each section provides a clear and cross-browser compatible sketch of how to solve a problem, whether reading from beginning to finish or browsing directly to a particular recipe solution.

MooTools 1.3 Cookbook provides instant solutions to MooTools problems – whatever you want to do with MooTools, this book will tell you how to do it.

MooTools 1.3 Cookbook is presented in a progressive order that builds concepts and ideas, while simultaneously being a collection of powerful individual, standalone, recipe solutions.

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Book Description

Web applications today generally use at least some JavaScript to enhance the look and feel of the user interface. The jQuery UI toolkit gives web developers a set of widgets as well as a framework for developing and applying themes.

jQuery UI Themes: Beginner’s Guide is for web developers who want to design professional-looking applications that are resilient to change. It is a step-by-step guide that goes beyond showing how to switch themes in a user interface built with jQuery UI and offers developers a practical guide to designing their own themes and gives them insight as to how themes work.

jQuery UI Themes Beginner’s Guide starts with themes in general and why they’re important in web applications today. We gradually move forward, covering jQuery UI basics, eventually aiming for a full understanding of the theme framework. The ThemeRoller application is a powerful tool – allowing developers to easily adjust theme settings. In addition to seeing how the ThemeRoller works, we take a more in-depth look at the CSS framework internals allowing readers to develop the ability to adjust themes in ways the ThemeRoller cannot. This includes everything from special effects to theming custom widgets. There is no limit to what your theme can change.

Once you’ve read this book, you’ll no only be well-versed in theming jargon, you’ll also be able to take one look at any jQuery UI application and understand why and how it looks the way it does.

This book gives you the opportunity to create jQuery UI themes, learning by example. Download Now »

Book Description

With HTML5 and improved web browser support, JavaScript has become the tool of choice for creating high-performance web graphics. This faced-paced book shows you how to use JavaScript, jQuery, DHTML, and HTML5′s Canvas element to create rich web applications for computers and mobile devices.

By following real-world examples, experienced web developers learn fun and useful approaches to arcade games, DHTML effects, business dashboards, and other applications. This book serves complex subjects in easily digestible pieces, and each topic acts as a foundation for the next.

• Tackle JavaScript optimization and understand how it impacts performance
• Create fast-moving graphics by combining old-school DHTML with jQuery
• Learn advanced UI techniques using the jQuery UI and Ext JS libraries
• Build games with collision detection, object handling, and JavaScript scrolling techniques
• Master HTML5 Canvas basics for drawings, fills, bitmaps, animation, and more
• Create applications for the small screen with jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap
• Use Google’s data visualization tools to create interactive dashboards

About the Author
Raffaele Cecco is a veteran software developer from the European video games industry. He served as Technical Director at London-based software studio King of the Jungle Ltd, where he created software for clients such as Hasbro and Virgin. Download Now »