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Description of Professional Web Widgets with CSS, DOM, JSON and Ajax

Wrox's "Professional Widgets with CSS, DOM and Ajax" is the first guide to building web widgets - tiny applications that can be embedded in a web page or on the desktop and have exploded in popularity in recent months. Inside, award-winning programmer Rajesh Lal provides readers with a methodology for building widgets using standards like CSS and DOM to create widgets that work anywhere. Next he guides readers though the creation of widgets using several popular toolkits and frameworks including Yahoo! Widgets, Silverlight with PopFly, Google Web Toolkit, Microsoft Web Gadgets and more Professional Widgets with CSS, DOM and Ajax is heavy on step-by step examples enabling readers to get up to speed and begin building widgets quickly and easily.Topics include: understanding the architecture, design considerations and implementation of Web Widgets; working with Data Providers XML Web Services; using Ajax to provide the backbone and medium for widgets; presentation with CSS; browser compatibility; programming with Ajax libraries and frameworks; and, security, Yes Security.

Title Information

ISBN:

9780470246641

Pages:

350 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

254268

Publisher:

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Published:

16/12/2008

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