Sep 15
Mastering Ajax, Part 5: Manipulate the DOM
Last month Brett introduced the Document Object Model, whose elements work behind the scenes to define your Web pages. This month he dives even deeper into the DOM. Learn how to create, remove, and change the parts of a DOM tree, and take the next step toward updating your Web pages on the fly!
Sep 15
Mastering Ajax, Part 4: Exploiting DOM for Web response
The great divide between programmers (who work with back-end applications) and Web programmers (who spend their time writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) is long standing. However, the Document Object Model (DOM) bridges the chasm and makes working with both XML on the back end and HTML on the front end possible and an effective tool. [...]
Sep 6
Creating an AJAX feed viewer using Yahoo! UI and the Grid...
Create an AJAX powered feed viewer with the new Grid component from the Yahoo! UI library.
Jul 21
AJAX Caching Strategy
The ability of AJAX applications to make an HTTP connection behind the scenes to fetch small bits of information is one of the powerful tools that the modern browser APIs come equipped with. For most browsers (e.g., Firefox 1.5, Safari 2.0, Opera 8.5), the engine behind this task is the window object's XMLHttpRequest (XHR) object. [...]
Jul 12
Mastering Ajax, Part 3: Advanced requests and responses in...
For many Web developers, making simple requests and receiving simple responses is all they’ll ever need, but for developers who want to master Ajax, a complete understanding of HTTP status codes, ready states, and the XMLHttpRequest object is required.
Jul 12
Mastering Ajax, Part 2: Make asynchronous requests with...
Most Web applications use a request/response model that gets an entire HTML page from the server. The result is a back-and-forth that usually involves clicking a button, waiting for the server, clicking another button, and then waiting some more.
Jul 12
Mastering Ajax, Part 1: Introduction to Ajax
Ajax, which consists of HTML, JavaScriptâ„¢ technology, DHTML, and DOM, is an outstanding approach that helps you transform clunky Web interfaces into interactive Ajax applications.
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