July 2014
Intermediate to advanced
642 pages
15h 11m
English
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Introduction
During the last decade, the authors of this book worked on many enterprise web applications using a variety of programming languages and frameworks: HTML, JavaScript, Java, and Flex, to name a few. Apache Flex and Java produce compiled code that runs in a well-known and predictable virtual machine (JVM and Flash Player, respectively).
This book is about developing software by using what’s known as the HTML5 stack. But only the second chapter of this book offers you an overview of the selected HTML5 tags and APIs. The first chapter is an advanced introduction to JavaScript. The rest of the chapters are about designing, redesigning, developing, and redeveloping a sample website for Save The Child. You’ll be learning whatever is required for building this web application on the go.
You’ll be using dynamic HTML (DHTML), which is HTML5, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). We’ll add to the mix the XMLHttpRequest object that lives in a web browser and communicates with the server without the need to refresh the entire web page (a.k.a. Ajax). JSON will be our data format of choice for data exchange between the web browser and the server.
Moving from DHTML to HTML5
DHTML stands for Dynamic HTML. Back in 1999, Microsoft introduced the XMLHttpRequest object to allow the web version of its mail client, Outlook, to update the browser’s window without the need to refresh the entire web page. Several years later, it was substituted with a more popular acronym, AJAX (which stood ...
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