Advanced Ajax: Architecture and Best Practices is the definitive guide to building business-critical, production-quality Web applications with Ajax. Shawn M. Lauriat systematically addresses the design, architecture, and development issues associated with Ajax, offering proven patterns and robust code examples available in no other book. You�ll find best practices for addressing the full spectrum of issues enterprise Ajax developers face: scalability, performance, security, reliability, flexibility, maintainability, and reusability.Writing for experienced Web developers, Lauriat delivers fresh ideas and elegant solutions: meaty technical content, presented with exceptional clarity. Among the many topics he covers in unprecedented depth: cleanly implementing Javascript custom events to reduce coupling and to enhance flexibility; overcoming Ajax�s traditional accessibility limitations; reducing network latency through compression and other techniques; and much more. Coverage includes:Planning Ajax interfaces for simplicity, clarity, and intuitivenessCreating scalable, maintainable architectures for client-side JavascriptUsing the latest tools to profile, validate, and debug client-side codeArchitecting the server side for security and functionality, while restricting loaded data, objects, and actions to current requestsProtecting against the most widespread and significant Ajax security risksOptimizing every component of an Ajax application, from server-side scripts to database interactionsIntroducing cutting-edge Ajax: game development, Ajax with canvas, and Ajax for enterprise applications

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