Enhance your jQuery code by using object constructors and prototypes
Reduce overhead and gain more control by handling events with JavaScript
Work with the DOM much faster with JavaScript than you can with jQuery
Send a few AJAX requests without having to load the entire jQuery library
Understand the importance of JavaScript code standards, comments, code reuse, and anti-patterns
Enlist JavaScript resources, such as a good IDE, a syntax checker, and version control
If you’re comfortable with jQuery but a bit shaky with JavaScript, this concise guide will help you expand your knowledge of the language especially the code that jQuery covers up for you. Many jQuery devotees write as little code as possible, but with some JavaScript under your belt, you can prevent errors, reduce overhead, and make your application code more efficient.
This book explores event handling, prototypes, and working with the DOM and AJAX through examples and lots of code. You’ll learn common conventions and patterns in JavaScript and if you’ve never coded with JavaScript before a tutorial will take you through the basics. Download eBook Free »
With the jQuery UI library, you can apply the power and standards of jQuery to user interface design, complete with interactive elements, animation, and themeable widgets. This concise, code-heavy guide demonstrates how to harness interactive features that HTML5 lacks, including tabs, accordions, and dialog boxes. You’ll also learn how to program common but complex tasks, such as managing drag and drop and auto complete, that make it easier for users to interact with your site.
This book provides a quick tour of how jQuery UI can improve your HTML pages, followed by standalone chapters that focus on each of the components in detail. If you’re a web developer or designer looking to enrich your website with new features-without having to dive into full-fledged Javascript-jQuery UI is a must.
With the jQuery UI library, you can apply the power and standards of jQuery to user interface design, complete with interactive elements, animation, and themeable widgets. This concise, code-heavy guide demonstrates how to harness interactive features that HTML5 lacks, including tabs, accordions, and dialog boxes. You’ll also learn how to program common but complex tasks, such as managing drag and drop and autocomplete, that make it easier for users to interact with your site. Download eBook Free »
jQuery Mobile: Up and Running: Using HTML5 to Design Web Apps for Tablets and Smartphones
Would you like to build one mobile web application that works on iPad and Kindle Fire as well as iPhone and Android smartphones? This introductory guide to jQuery Mobile shows you how. Through a series of hands-on exercises, you’ll learn the best ways to use this framework’s many interface components to build customizable, multiplatform apps. You don’t need any programming skills or previous experience with jQuery to get started.
Understand how jQuery Mobile works with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
Work with UI components to format content and create forms, lists, navbars, and buttons
Create dynamic content with JavaScript, Ajax, and the jQuery core framework
Customize your entire user interface with themes and CSS3
Enable users to install your app from the browser and work with it offline
Distribute through app stores by packaging your creation as a native app
Would you like to build one mobile web application that works on iPad and Kindle Fire as well as iPhone and Android smartphones? This introductory guide to jQuery Mobile shows you how. Through a series of hands-on exercises, you’ll learn the best ways to use this framework’s many interface components to build customizable, multiplatform apps. You don’t need any programming skills or previous experience with jQuery to get started. Download eBook Free »
JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition
JavaScript lets you supercharge your HTML with animation, interactivity, and visual effects but many web designers find the language hard to learn. This jargon-free guide covers JavaScript basics and shows you how to save time and effort with the jQuery library of pre-written JavaScript code. You’ll soon be building web pages that feel and act like desktop programs, without having to do much programming.
Make your pages interactive. Create JavaScript events that react to visitor actions.
Use animations and effects. Build drop-down navigation menus, pop-ups, automated slideshows, and more.
Improve your user interface. Learn how the pros make websites fun and easy to use.
Collect data with web forms. Create easy-to-use forms that ensure more accurate visitor responses.
Add a dash of Ajax. Enable your web pages to communicate with a web server without a page reload.
Practice with living examples. Get step-by-step tutorials for web projects you can build yourself.
JavaScript lets you supercharge your HTML with animation, interactivity, and visual effects but many web designers find the language hard to learn. This jargon-free guide covers JavaScript basics and shows you how to save time and effort with the jQuery library of pre-written JavaScript code. You’ll soon be building web pages that feel and act like desktop programs, without having to do much programming.
Supercharged JavaScript Graphics: with HTML5 Canvas, jQuery, and More
With HTML5 and improved web browser support, JavaScript has become the tool of choice for creating high-performance web graphics. This faced-paced book shows you how to use JavaScript, jQuery, DHTML, and HTML5′s Canvas element to create rich web applications for computers and mobile devices.
Tackle JavaScript optimization and understand how it impacts performance
Create fast-moving graphics by combining old-school DHTML with jQuery
Learn advanced UI techniques using the jQuery UI and Ext JS libraries
Build games with collision detection, object handling, and JavaScript scrolling techniques
Master HTML5 Canvas basics for drawings, fills, bitmaps, animation, and more
Create applications for the small screen with jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap
Use Google’s data visualization tools to create interactive dashboards
By following real-world examples, experienced web developers learn fun and useful approaches to arcade games, DHTML effects, business dashboards, and other applications. This book serves complex subjects in easily digestible pieces, and each topic acts as a foundation for the next.
Publisher: O’Reilly Media; Original edition (September 29, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1449393217
ISBN-13: 978-1449393212
eBook Description:
Head First jQuery
Want to add more interactivity and polish to your websites? Discover how jQuery can help you build complex scripting functionality in just a few lines of code. With Head First jQuery, you’ll quickly get up to speed on this amazing JavaScript library by learning how to navigate HTML documents while handling events, effects, callbacks, and animations. By the time you’ve completed the book, you’ll be incorporating Ajax apps, working seamlessly with HTML and CSS, and handling data with PHP, MySQL and JSON.
Use jQuery with DOM to overcome the limitations of HTML and CSS
Learn how jQuery selectors and actions work together
Write functions and wire them to interface elements
Use jQuery effects to create actions on the page
Make your pages come alive with animation
Build interactive web pages with jQuery and Ajax
Build forms in web applications
Want to add more interactivity and polish to your websites? Discover how jQuery can help you build complex scripting functionality in just a few lines of code. With Head First jQuery, you’ll quickly get up to speed on this amazing JavaScript library by learning how to navigate HTML documents while handling events, effects, callbacks, and animations. By the time you’ve completed the book, you’ll be incorporating Ajax apps, working seamlessly with HTML and CSS, and handling data with PHP, MySQL and JSON.
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