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| A new design for the Web | |
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| Why Ajax rich clients? | |
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| The four defining principles of Ajax | |
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| Ajax rich clients in the real world | |
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| Alternative to Ajax | |
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| First steps with Ajax | |
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| The key elements of Ajax | |
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| Orchestrating the user experience with JavaScript | |
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| Defining look and feel using CSS | |
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| Organizing the view using the DOM | |
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| Loading data asynchronously using XML technologies | |
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| What sets Ajax apart | |
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| Introducing order to Ajax | |
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| Order out of chaos | |
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| Some small refactoring case studies | |
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| Model-view-controller | |
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| Web server MVC | |
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| Third-party libraries and frameworks | |
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| The page as an application | |
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| A different kind of MVC | |
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| The view in an Ajax application | |
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| The controller in an Ajax application | |
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| Models in an Ajax application | |
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| Generating the view from the model | |
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| The role of the server | |
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| Working with the server side | |
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| Coding the server side | |
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| The big picture : common server-side designs | |
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| The details : exchanging data | |
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| Writing to the server | |
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| The user experience | |
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| Getting it right : building a quality application | |
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| Keeping the user informed | |
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| Designing a notification system for Ajax | |
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| Implementing a notification framework | |
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| Using the framework with network requests | |
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| Indicating freshness of data | |
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| Security and Ajax | |
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| JavaScript and browser security | |
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| Communicating with remote services | |
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| Protecting confidential data | |
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| Policing access to Ajax data streams | |
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| Performance | |
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| What is performance? | |
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| JavaScript execution speed | |
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| JavaScript memory footprint | |
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| Designing for performance | |
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| Dynamic double combo | |
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| A double-combo script | |
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| The client-side architecture | |
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| Implementing the server : VB.NET | |
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| Presenting the results | |
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| Advanced issues | |
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| Refactoring | |
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| Type-ahead suggest | |
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| Examining type-ahead frameworks | |
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| The server-side framework : C# | |
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| The client-side framework | |
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| Adding functionality : multiple elements with different queries | |
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| Refactoring | |
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| The enhanced Ajax web portal | |
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| The evolving portal | |
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| The Ajax portal architecture using Java | |
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| The Ajax login | |
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| Implementing DHTML windows | |
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| Adding Ajax autosave functionality | |
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| Refactoring | |
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| Live search using XSLT | |
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| Understanding the search techniques | |
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| The client-side code | |
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| The server-side code : PHP | |
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| Combining the XSLT and XML documents | |
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| Completing the search | |
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| Refactoring | |
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| Building stand-alone applications with Ajax | |
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| Reading information from the outside world | |
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| Creating the rich user interface | |
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| Loading the RSS feeds | |
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| Adding a rich transition effect | |
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| Additional functionality | |