The volume of JavaScript used on the web is growing, yet a single, poorly written line of code has the potential to break an entire website, frustrating users and driving away potential customers. AKQA have been working over many years to find a set of steps to follow during development to ensure only the highest-quality code gets released. Join Den Odell, Head of Web Development at AKQA, as he presents the seven steps that will improve the quality of any JavaScript project, leaving code easier to manage and letting users browse without frustration.
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BOOKS FOR PROFESSIONALS BY PROFESSIONALS®
Pro JavaScript RIA Techniques:
Best Practices, Performance, and Presentation
Dear Reader,
Many people are familiar with rich Internet applications (RIAs), those web sites
that blur the line between desktop software and the web browser. Applications
like webmail clients, photo editors, and social networking sites cross this
boundary. They feature intuitive, user-friendly interfaces, without the need for
page refreshes or other interruptions to the end user’s experience. It is widely
regarded that this type of web site will continue to grow in popularity.
I wrote this book to help web developers with some existing JavaScript skills suc-cessfully
create their own professional, visually rich, dynamic, and performance-tuned
RIAs. And following the guidelines in this book, you’ll be safe in the
knowledge that your code is built according to best practices, adhering to web
standards and accessibility guidelines.
In this book, I will show you how best to build a solid, maintainable foundation
of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code for your RIAs, together with the Ajax techniques
needed to provide the dynamic communication between the browser and web
server behind the scenes. I will describe the performance limitations you may run
into when building your web applications and how best to overcome these. And
I’ll give you some tips for making your user interfaces feel more responsive, even
when you can’t get around the performance limitations.
You also will learn how to improve your RIA user interfaces by adding typo-graphical
headings using custom fonts, multimedia playback components,
customized form controls, and dynamic charting capabilities. Additionally,
I will demonstrate how to continue running your web applications when the
connection to the server is broken, how to use Ajax to read hidden data stored
within binary files, and how to ensure the highest level of accessibility within
your JavaScript web applications.
Den Odell
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HEAD OF WEB DEVELOPMENT, AKQA
7. 2014
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Full Screen API
MVC/MVVM Frameworks
Device Orientation, Direction and
Motion Events
Web Audio
History API
HTML5 Media APIs
Modernizr
Advanced User Interface
Components
Managing Offline Application Cache
GeoLocation
Canvas API
Match Media API
Web Workers
Replacing Flash
Responsive Foreground Images
Parallax And Other Effects
jQuery / Zepto
AngularJS
Grunt / Gulp
Parallax And Other Effects
Node.js
Mobile App Development
Touch Events
Cross-domain Ajax
Local Storage APIs
Working around browser vendor
prefixes
WebRTC
postMessage API
Social Media Integration
Drag & Drop API
CSS Animation & Transition Events
Web Sockets API
RequireJS
Polyfills