深入浅出Ajax（影印版）

Table of Contents (summary)

Intro

1 Using Ajax: web applications for a new generation

2 Speaking the Language: making ajax requests

Interlude

3 She Blinded Me with Asynchrony: asynchronous apps

4 Web Page Forestry: the document object model

4.5 A Second Helping: devloping dora applications

5 Saying More with POST: post requests

Interlude

6 More Than Words Can Say: .vml requests and responses

7 A Fight to the Finish:json versus xml

Appendix 1 : A Few Special Bonus Gifts: extras

Appendix 2: 'All I Want Is the Code": ajax and dora utilities

Index

Table of contents (the real thing)

Intro

Your brain on Ajax. Here you are trying to learn something, and your brain is

doing you a favor by making sure the learning doesn't srick. Your brain's thinking,"Better

leave room for more important things, like which wild animals to avoid and whether naked

snowboarding is a bad idea." So how do you trick your brain into thinking that your life

depends on knowing how to program asynchronously?

Who is this book for?

we know what your brain is thinking

Metacognition

Bend your brain into submission

Read Me

Technical reviewer

Acknowledgments

1 Using Ajax

The Web, Reloaded

Welcome to the new millenium

"Reload? We don't need no stinking reloads."

The highlight reel: Chapter 1

Creating a request object

PHR.. at a glance

What the server used to do...

What the server should do now

Initialing a connection

Connecting to the web server

Adding an event handler

Coding the callback function

How we see web apps...

Introducing the web browser

What should the browser do with the server's response?

Sending instructions to the browser

Getting the server's response

Checking for the right ready state

60 second review

2 Speaking the Language

Break Neck Pizza Delivery

Break Neck Pizza, Ajax-style

HTMI, 101 : accepting user input

Event handlers connect HTML to JavaScript

Using the DOM to get user input

Where's the web browser?

Creating a request objcct (revisited)

Supporting multiple browsers

JavaScript doesn't have to be in a function

PHR.. at a glance

Request URLs deliver data to the server

Seud the request to the server

Retrieving data from the server

HTTP ready states

Checking the ready state

What is the browser doing?

Get the server's response from the request object

Test driving the Brcak Neck app

when browsers cache request URLs...

60 second review

3 She Blinded Me with Asynchrony

What does asynchronous really mean?

Building an Ajax-powered coffee maker

Iterative developn~ent and Ajax apps

Moving JavaScript to external files

Breaking up theJavaScript

Sending an asynchronous request

Getting the value of a radio group

Espresso Talk: Asynchronous and Synchronous Application

Getting the text content of a <div>

Setting the text content of a <div>

Clearing the order form

PHP... at a glance

Writing the callback function

IntroducingJavaScript's substring() function

The final test drive (right?)

We need two request objects!

Creating two request objects

welcome to the world of asynchrony!

4 Web Page Forestry

Need a dynamic application?

Meet the DOM

Using the DOM without Ajax

How the browser sees your HTML

Write your own... Web Dictionary

Order matters to the web browser

Browsers see the world upside down

The DOM tree

Moving around in a DOM tree

The node knows.., pretty much everything

Some browsers don't recognize Node

The Great Chapter 4 Coding Challenge

4.5 A Second Helping

Evervone's a critic

What's the game plan?

The big picture

Setting up CD covers

Programmatically adding event handlers

Adding a CD to the top 5

Pay attention to "this"

Adding children to an element

An element can have only one parent

More additions to our DOM tree

A final test drive

5 Saying More with POST

Repeat business rocks

Submitting a form with Ajax

Send the order to the server

PHR.. at a glance

When things go wrong...

The DOM is connected to what a customer sees

Test driving Break Neck

Error messages and response headers

The server talks back

Break Neck error handling

GET requests versus POST requests

Web servers unencode POST data

Send more data with a POST request

Trying out POST requests

The mysterious POST data

Request headers

Response headers

Setting the content type

6 More Than Words Can Say

Servers don't get to say much

Speak Up!

The limited vocabulary, of a server

XML: just what the doctor ordered

Revisiting Boards 'R' Us

The problem with Boards 'R' Us

The problem with proprietaW data formats

Filling that XML prescription

PHP... at a glance

Using responseText to get raw XML

Remember DOM trees?

Using responseXML in your code

Finding elements by their tag name

Testing out XML in Boards 'R' Us

XML is a language to define other languages

Don't try and use XMI, for everything

XML for requests?

Which data format?

7 A Fight to the Finish

A new data format

A review of request and response formats

Fighting words: XML and JSON

You use the DOM to work with XML

You work withJSON using "normal" JavaScript

JSON is JavaScript

TheJSON data format

JSON on the server

JSON comes across as text

What data format should you send your requests in?

Which is the better data format?

a.1 A Few Special Bonus Gifts

Ajax toolkits

script.aculo.us and UI toolkits

Inspecting the DOM

Using JSON libraries in your PHP scripts

Using eval0 withJSON

a.2 It's time for a little bonus credit.

ajax.is

Using ajax.js

text-utils.js

Using text-utils.js