Ajax

Length

3 days, 266 pages

Audience

It is intended for developers who already have programming experience.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with JavaScript and HTML recommended.

Outline

Ajax - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML - overview

• Web Applications - Pre and Post Ajax
• Ajax in the Real World
• Alternatives to Ajax

XML In A Nutshell

• Syntax
• Rules

JavaScript In A Nutshell

• Primitive Data Types and Reference Types
• Variables
• Loops
• Function Definition and Function Call
• Objects
• Expressions, Operators and Escape Sequences

Document Object Model (DOM)

• Window Object
• HTML & XML DOM
• Node
• Element
• Accessing Element Nodes
• innerHTML
• Properties of Element and Text Nodes
• Node Attributes
• Node Name & Node Value
• Event Handling
• Key Word - this
• Whitespace Interpretation - Browser Differences
• Removing Nodes
• Creating New Nodes
• Node Methods

XMLHttpRequest Object

• XMLHttpRequest Instantiation
• XMLHttpRequest open() Method
• Asynchronous vs Synchronous Requests
• Callback Function
• readyState

CSS In A Nutshell

• Syntax
• Units
• Selectors
• Positioning properties
• float Property
• Types of Positioning
• 3D

XML and Ajax

• Creating a DOM Document with JavaScript
• load XML
• Receiving XML Responses from the Server
• Passing XML to the Server 90
• Different Server Side Technologies - an overview

Frameworks and Toolkits - an overview

• Some Popular FrameWorks - in brief

Object-Oriented JavaScript

• Multiple Simultaneous Asynchronous Requests
• Prototype
• Extending BuiltIn Objects
• Object-Oriented XMLHttpRequest
• Refactoring the Creation and Handling of XHRHttpRequest

Model-View-Control (MVC)

• Design Patterns
• MVC Examples
• Ajax Web Application

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

• JavaScript Object and Array Creation Using Literals
• JavaScript Objects in Arrays & Arrays in Objects
• JSON Syntax
• JSON Parsers
• JSON Data Transfer Between Client and Server
• Autosuggest example

XSLT

• Overview
• XSLT in the Browsers
• Sarissa
• Advantages and Disadvantages

XPath

• Overview

Drag and Drop

• Overview
• Scriptaculous
• Draggable Options
• Droppables
• Drag and Drop, Ajax and Scriptaculous

Apendix

• Download / Install Software -Wamp
• Regular Expressions
• Some characteristics of regular expressions
• Metacharacters
• Non-assertions and Quantifiers
• Assertions and Quantifiers

XML Basics

• XML Benefits
• XML Parsers
• Content Management
• Web Services
• A Document Type Declaration
• Elements
• Attributes
• CDATA
• Special Characters