Search results

Thanks to faster browsers, better web standards support, and more powerful devices, the web now defines the next generation of user interfaces that are fun, practical, fluid, and memorable. The key? Animation. But learning how to create animations is hard, and existing learning material doesn't explain the context of the UI problem that animations are trying to solve. That's where this book comes in. You'll gain a solid technical understanding of how to create awesome animations using CSS and le...

jQuery is one of today's most popular JavaScript web application development frameworks and libraries. And while getting started with the tool is easy, sometimes it's not as simple to completely realize the power and automation that it can bring to your development work--and that's especially the case when you're in the middle of a project, up against a deadline. That's where Practical jQuery comes in. Authors Rod Paddock and John V. Petersen tackle jQuery in the context of a live project, exact...

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are a powerful way to enrich the presentation of HTML-based web pages, allowing web authors to give their pages a more sophisticated look and more structure. CSS's compact file size helps web pages load quickly, and by allowing changes made in one place to be applied across the entire document, CSS can save hours of tedious changing and updating. But to leverage the full power of CSS, web authors first have to sift through CSS theory to find practical solutions that...

Pro JavaScript with MooTools is unlike any other JavaScript book on the market today. While similar books focus on either JavaScript as a language of the browser or how to use JavaScript frameworks, Pro JavaScript with MooTools fills the gap between these topics and moves beyond-exploring the advanced features of JavaScript and how the MooTools framework uses these features to further improve the language itself. The book itself takes a unique three-pronged approach. It first walks you through...

Think you need an army of skilled programmers to build a web site? Think again. With nothing more than an ordinary PC, some raw ambition, and this book, you'll learn how to create and maintain a professional-looking and visitor-friendly site that features components such as audio, video, and e-commerce capability. This Missing Manual gives you all the tools, techniques, and expert advice you need -- including when and how to adopt HTML5. * Learn to create a site from start to finish with hands-...

-- ActivePerl development A-Z -- Contains 10 chapters with each covering a specific part of the ActivePerl language. It starts with general guidelines and tricks that can be used to aid in cross platform development, before moving on to the specific areas that are affected by the Win32/UNIX compatibility. -- All the tools you need -- The primary aim of this title is to provide a simplified guide to the process of writing scripts that work under both UNIX and Win32 platforms, either by using gene...

Written in a cookbook style, this book offers solutions using a recipe-based approach. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions followed by an analysis of what was done in each task and other useful information. The cookbook approach means you can dive into whatever recipes you want in no particular order. This book is an essential for any developer who possesses some JavaScript or web development knowledge and wishes to take a leap into building native applications for both the iPhone and...

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks.A concise guide that delivers immediate results with practical recipes on customizing your projects.This book is for intermediate to advanced JavaScript developers who are interested in learning more about AMD specification and RequireJS.

Be a Front-end Web Developer is your complete "Bootcamp in a Book": all the knowledge, hands-on interactive activities, and video explanations you need to make a career change, or get your first entry-level position in front-end web development after you graduate! Focused relentlessly on employability, it guides you through building finished projects you can show off to demonstrate the skills you've mastered. Carefully integrated videos and online exercises take you even further towards practi...

If you are a curious JavaScript developer interested simultaneously in tweaking the efficiency of your code, as well as improving the conciseness of it, and maintaining the readability of it, then this is the book for you. Ideally, the book is intended for readers already working on JavaScript projects and using frameworks such as jQuery and Backbone. Even if you're already using Lo-Dash, this book will show you how to use it efficiently. While extensive JavaScript experience isn't a requirement...

An easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide with over 80 recipes covering examples on how to use and create dynamic charts with Highcharts. "Highcharts Cookbook" is intended for JavaScript developers or other web programmers looking to add charting functionality to their web applications. Some familiarity with web application development would be helpful but is not required.

Create exciting and powerful Web pages using JavaScripts and JScript! If you know the basics of HTML, in just one weekend you?ll learn how to write JavaScripts that will dramatically enhance your Web sites. You?ll begin on Friday evening with the basics of JavaScript and JScript. By Sunday morning, you?ll cover advanced JavaScript programming topics and put your new skills to the test as you develop an actual site. Comprising one third of the book's content, extensive coverage of JScript program...

With JavaScript Complete, you get 100% of what you need to deliver fully functional applications for both Netscape and Explorer. You get complete coverage of technical issues, from an expert who understands the problems you must solve. And with the wealth of examples and sample code in these pages and on the CD-ROM, you can get up and running quickly. This book gives you JavaScript in depth, including hard-to-find information on differences between versions and hiding the code from browsers that...

"Imagines short JavaScript programs as written by famous wordsmiths."--Back cover.

Although web components are still on the bleeding edge-barely supported in modern browsers-the technology is also moving extremely fast. This practical guide gets you up to speed on the concepts underlying W3C's emerging standard and shows you how to build custom, reusable HTML5 Web Components. Regardless of your experience with libraries such as jQuery and Polymer, this book teaches JavaScript developers the DOM manipulations these libraries perform. You'll learn how to build a basic widget wit...