Now you can provide users with the same rich experience and functionality on the web that they've become accustomed to on the desktop computer. This book will show you how to take AJAX and Ruby on Rails to the next level by combining numerous cutting-edge technologies in order to develop full-fledged web applications. It explores a number of frameworks and in-browser APIs while providing code for your own implementations. You'll gain a thorough understanding of the underlying design principles behind professional Rich Internet Application (RIA) development and the various tools that are available to accomplish your design goals. You'll break down an application into client-side and server-side technologies, and you'll take advantage of key concepts such as mashups, auto-completion, and tagging for social sites. 作者簡介:Dana Moore is a division scientist with BBN Technologies and is an acknowledged expert in the fields of peer-to-peer and collaborative computing, software agent frameworks, and assistive environments. Prior to joining BBN, Dana was chief scientist for Roku Technologies, and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories. Dana is a popular conference speaker, a university lecturer, and has published both articles for numerous computing publications, and books, including Peer-to-Peer: Building Secure, Scalable, and Manageable Networks and Jabber Developer Handbook. Dana holds a master of science degree in technology management from the University of Maryland, and a bachelor of science in industrial design, also from the University of Maryland.
Acknowledgments Introduction Part Ⅰ: An Introduction to RIAs Chapter 1: What Characterizes Rich Internet Applications? Chapter 2: RIA Foundations Chapter 3: The Programmable Web: The Mashup Ecosystem Chapter 4: Getting Started: Creating Your First RIA Part Ⅱ: RIAs Explored Chapter 5: Debugging the Client Side Chapter 6: The Model-View-Controller (MVC) Pattern Chapter 7: JavaScript Library Survey Chapter 8: Compiling to JavaScript Chapter 9: An Introduction to ideaStax Part Ⅲ: RIA Development in Depth Chapter 10: Form Validation Chapter 11: Form Usability Chapter 12: Drag and Drop Chapter 13: User Interaction, Effects, and Animation Chapter 14: Tagging and Rating (Ⅰ): Creating an Infrastructure Chapter 15: Tagging and Rating (Ⅱ): Using Social Capability Part Ⅳ: Advanced Selected Topics Chapter 16: Providing an API Chapter 17: RIA Widgets Chapter 18: Rich Immersive Environments Part Ⅴ: Appendix Appendix: Dojo Validation Functions and Flags Index