Pro JavaScript RIA Techniques: Best Practices, Performance and Presentation

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 youll 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 is this book 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. About the Apress Pro Series

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard-won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.

About the Apress Pro Series

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard-won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.

Showing Web developers how to build JavaScript RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) with compelling user interfaces and great performance, this guide offers the best practices and optimization techniques so developers can optimize performance without sacrificing a rich user interface.

This is a core web development book. Javascript remains a very popular technology for web developers and RIAa (TM)s are the buzz word at all the developers shows at the moment, as organizations seek competitive business advantages in a tough economic climate, through sophisticated web interfaces and user experiences on the web sites.

The Interneta (TM)s most popular Web sites use techniques that were unheard of just a few years ago. Pro Javascript RIA Techniques: Best Practices, Performance and Presentation shows developers how to implement the most powerful techniques and how to do it most efficiently. Speed and style remain the keys to creating dominant sites and will be for years to come.