Chapter 8: Adding Static Interactions Using JavaScript
The last two chapters discussed HTML5 and CSS3. Hopefully, you didn’t forget that this is a book about the Google App Engine. One of the most important use cases of the App Engine is creating browser interfaces. This book advocates avoiding frameworks and libraries whenever feasible to optimize performance and minimize resource usage. Many frameworks abstract away from HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. When using frameworks, you may overlook the power of writing code yourself. This part of the book demonstrates the elegance of writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and how much you can do with a little code in modern browsers.
Chapter 8 is the last client-side chapter; it discusses how to improve your ...
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