September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
488 pages
13h 28m
English
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Chapter 4. Client-Side Development
The Internet has come a long way from web pages consisting of simple HTML markup and JavaScript. Popular web applications such as Gmail and Facebook have transformed users’ expectations of websites: they are no longer satisfied with basic text but instead demand rich, interactive experiences that rival those provided by native desktop applications. As users’ demands grow, modern browsers fight to keep up and do their best to implement features and specifications—such as HTML 5 and CSS3—that make these kinds of applications possible.
Though most of this book focuses on the server-side aspects of developing web applications with the ASP.NET MVC Framework, this chapter takes a break to explore the fundamentals of creating rich web applications, showing how to use jQuery library to simplify client-side development.
Working with JavaScript
Browser incompatibilities have plagued web developers for decades. The differences in functionality and lack of standards between browsers have given rise to numerous client-side libraries and frameworks that attempt to address these problems by abstracting away the differences between browsers to provide a truly standard cross-browser API.
Emerging as the overwhelming favorite of these numerous libraries is the jQuery JavaScript Library, which, following its mantra of “Write less, Do more,” greatly simplifies HTML Document Object Model (DOM) traversal, event handling, animation, and AJAX interactions. As of version 3 ...
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