Advanced Ajax: Architectures and Best Practices

Shawn Lauriat

Sample Code

More coming as I smooth out the edges of the code samples.

1. Chapter 1: Usability
   • Throbber
   • Client-side Message Queue/Output
   • Server-side Message Queue/Output
   • Logger extends Messenger
   • Div list vs. semantic markup
   • Div blog vs. semantic markup (JavaScript parsing)
2. Chapter 2: Accessibility
   • Accessible error message markup
   • MathML
   • Registration form tab 1
   • Two languages in XHTML
   • Content replacement without WAI-ARIA
   • Content replacement with WAI-ARIA
3. Chapter 3: Client-side Application Architecture
   • Man.wakeUp() with and without apply
   • ExtendedSample extending Sample
   • Introducing the EventDispatcher with AliasPicker
   • Applying JavaScript-only events to the abstraction object of XMLHttpRequest
   • askQuestion() and presentAnswer()
   • MVC around the registration form
4. Chapter 4: Client-side Debugging
   • Unit testing JavaScript with JSUnit
5. Chapter 5: Performance Optimization
   • Database table structure
   • Using EXPLAIN
   • Bandwidth usage comparison for formats
   • zlib and deflate
   • Resource consolidation
   • Cache and its child classes
   • Taking advantage of HTTP/1.1
6. Chapter 6: Scalability
   • Highlighting table cells
   • PDO::fetchAll() vs. PDOIterator
   • Showing modularity with the Effects library
   • Late-loading JavaScript
   • Pre-loading JavaScript with server-side resource consolidation
7. Chapter 7: Server-side Application Architecture
   • DBO
   • User extends DBO
   • Session extends DBO
   • CentralController for nested Controllers
   • RegistrationController
   • RenderingEngine
   • Using the Factory pattern with a template engine
8. Chapter 8: Keeping a Web Application Secure
   • XHTML form and corresponding request
   • Request filtering
   • Escaping for SQL
   • Prepared Statements
   • Escaping against XSS in PHP
   • Escaping against XSS in JavaScript
   • Using DOM methods to prevent XSS
   • Escaping for URLs
   • Sample CSRF exploit
   • Checking the Referer header
   • Submitting an additional header
   • Secondary, Random Tokens
9. Chapter 9: Documenting
   • Inline comments to explain
   • Generating documentation with phpDocumentor
   • Generating documentation with JSDoc
   • Bonus: Generating documentation with JsDoc Toolkit
   • php.ini template
   • Coding standards comparison
   • Creating programming guides with examples
   • Style guides for XHTML and CSS usage
10. Chapter 10: Game Development
    • Cellular Automata
    • Universe Conflict (Spacewar!)
11. Appendix B: OpenAjax
    • Frozen Toolkit