Ajax; a beginner's guide.9780071494298 Ajax; a beginner's guide. Holzner, Steven. McGraw-Hill 2009 475 pages $39.99 Paperback TK5105 This introductory guide designed for web developers demonstrates techniques for creating webpages that look and act like desktop applications. Following a JavaScript primer, chapters cover creating Ajax applications, handling multiple XMLHttpRequest objects, downloading JavaScript, using Ajax frameworks, validating user input, and working with XML, dynamic HTML (DHTML See Dynamic HTML. DHTML - Dynamic HTML ), Cascading Style Sheets A style sheet format for HTML documents endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium. CSS1 (Version 1.0) provides hundreds of layout settings that can be applied to all the subsequent HTML pages that are downloaded. CSS2 (Version 2. (CSS), and PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) A scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. With syntax from C, Java and Perl, PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server side execution. . Holzner, who has written over 100 computer books, also includes Q&A sections and hands-on exercises. He assumes readers have a good knowledge of HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. . ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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