Complete Ajax Training Course

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
• 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

Security and Ajax

• JavaScript and browser security
• Communicating with remote services
• Protecting confidential data
• Policing access to Ajax data streams

Performance

• What is performance?
• JavaScript execution speed
• JavaScript memory footprint
• Designing for performance

Dynamic double combo

• A double-combo script
• The client-side architecture
• Implementing the server: VB .NET
• Presenting the results
• Advanced issues

Type-ahead suggest

• Examining type-ahead frameworks
• The server-side framework: C#
• The client-side framework
• Adding functionality: multiple elements

The enhanced Ajax web portal

• The evolving portal
• The Ajax portal architecture using Java
• The Ajax login
• Implementing DHTML windows
• Adding Ajax autosave functionality

Live search using XSLT

• Understanding the search techniques
• The client-side code
• The server-side code: PHP
• Combining the XSLT and XML documents
• Completing the search

Building stand-alone applications with Ajax

• Reading information from the outside world
• Creating the rich user interface
• Loading the RSS feeds
• Adding a rich transition effect
• Additional functionality
• Avoiding the project’s restrictions
• RSS reader Model
• RSS reader view
• RSS reader Controller
• Refactoring debrief