Pro JavaScript RIA Techniques

Best Practices, Performance and Presentation

By: Dennis Odell

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eText | 25 July 2009

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Pro JavaScript RIA Techniques: Best Practices, Performance, and Presentation shows you how you can build JavaScript RIAs (rich Internet applications) with compelling user interfaces and great performance.

With the best practices and optimization techniques you???ll learn in this book, you can optimize performance without sacrificing a rich user interface. Using a combination of innovative ideas and intelligent use of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and plug???ins, this book shows you how to make decisions based on best web standard development practices and real???world browser data.

Through practical examples, you???ll see how to optimize both design and performance with an eye toward future enhancements and efficient maintenance.

Starting with the essential principles and techniques of semantic markup, build efficient, responsive web applications based on web standard best practices and real???world experience.
Apply practical techniques and see how to reuse examples of broadly relevant page components to improve the interface and performance of existing sites.
Explore ways to push the boundaries of the possible with existing browser technology.

What you???ll learn

Best practices for building web applications using JavaScript and web standards
Optimization techniques for high performance in browsers
How to create richer user interfaces
Advanced Ajax techniques
How to optimize graphic performance by drawing in the browser with SVG
Integrating accessibility into rich web applications

Who this book is for

This book is aimed at web developers and designers who need to improve the user experience of their sites by making their code more efficient and their sites more responsive, and incorporating more complexity all at the same time. It is for Internet professionals ready to go beyond Web 2.0 to a newer, more streamlined vision of rich user experiences.

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