AJAX and JavaScript Introduction

Course Goals:

Our AJAX training course covers AJAX related technologies including JavaScript, DOM, CSS, XML etc., focusing on Object Oriented JavaScript and the main AJAX object: XMLHttpRequest.

Our AJAX and JavaScript training course will take you through the different technologies that come together to form AJAX. The course will also show you how to bring these technologies together to create rich and exciting web sites.

Topics:

AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML - Overview

• Web Applications - Pre and Post AJAX
• AJAX in the Real World
• Alternatives to AJAX
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XML In A Nutshell

• Syntax
• Rules

JavaScript Refresher

• Primitive Data Types and Reference Types
• Variables
• Loops
• Function Definition and Function Call
• Objects
• Expressions, Operators and Escape Sequences

Document Object Model (DOM)

• Window Object
• HTML & XML DOM
• Node
• Element Accessing Element Nodes innerHTML
• Properties of Element and Text Nodes
• Node Attributes
• Event Handling
• Key Word - this
• Removing Nodes
• Creating New Nodes
• Node Methods

XMLHttpRequest Object

• XMLHttpRequest Instantiation
• XMLHttpRequest open() Method
• Asynchronous vs Synchronous Requests Callback Function readyState

CSS Refresher

• Syntax
• Units
• Selectors Positioning properties float Property
• Types of Positioning

XML and AJAX

• Creating a DOM Document with JavaScript load XML
• Receiving XML Responses from the Server
• Passing XML to the Server

Object-Oriented JavaScript

• Multiple Simultaneous Asynchronous Requests Prototype
• Extending BuiltIn Objects
• Object-Oriented XMLHttpRequest

XSLT

• Overview
• XSLT in the Browsers
• Advantages and Disadvantages

XPath

• Overview