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Designing with Progressive Enhancement: Building the Web that Works for Everyone

July 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Designing with Progressive Enhancement- Building the Web that Works for Everyone


is an approach to development that aims to deliver the best possible experience to the widest possible audience, and simplifies coding and as well. Whether users are viewing your sites on an iPhone, the latest and greatest high-end system, or even hearing them on a screen-reader, their experience should be easy to understand and use, and as fully-featured and functional as possible.

with Progressive Enhancement will show you how. It’s both a practical guide to understanding the principles and benefits of progressive enhancement, and a detailed exploration of examples that will you—whether you’re a designer or a developer—how, where, and when to implement the specific coding and scripting approaches that embody progressive enhancement.

In this book, you’ll learn:

  • Why common coding approaches leave users behind, and how progressive enhancement is a more inclusive and accessible alternative
  • How to analyze complex interface designs, see the underlying semantic HTML experience that will work everywhere, and layer on advanced enhancements safely
  • A unique browser capabilities testing suite that helps deliver enhancements only to devices that can handle them
  • Real-world best practices for coding HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to work with progressive enhancement, and cases where forward-looking HTML5 and CSS3 techniques can be applied effectively today
  • How to factor in accessibility features like WAI-ARIA and keyboard support to ensure universal access
  • Detailed techniques to transform semantic HTML into interactive components like sliders, tabs, tree controls, and charts, along with downloadable -based widgets to apply directly in your projects [Read more...]

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JavaScript Cookbook

July 25, 2010 By 2 Comments
JavaScript Cookbook


Why reinvent the wheel every time you run into a problem with ? This cookbook is chock-full of code recipes that address common programming tasks, as well as techniques for building web apps that work in any browser. Just copy and paste the code samples into your project — you’ll get the job done faster and learn more about in the process.

You’ll also learn how to take advantage of the latest features in ECMAScript 5 and 5, including the new cross-domain widget communication technique, 5′s video and audio elements, and the drawing canvas. You’ll find recipes for using these features with JavaScript to build high-quality application interfaces.

  • Create interactive web and desktop applications
  • Work with JavaScript objects, such as String, Array, Number, and Math
  • Use JavaScript with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and the canvas element
  • Store data in various ways, from the simple to the complex
  • Program the new HTML5 audio and video elements
  • Implement programming with Web Workers
  • Use and create jQuery plug-ins
  • Use ARIA and JavaScript to create fully accessible rich internet applications [Read more...]

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Office 2010: The Missing Manual

July 25, 2010 By 1 Comment
Office 2010- The Missing Manual


Whether you’re new to Microsoft Office or have used it for years, this clear and friendly primer helps you be productive with Word, , Excel, , , and the rest of the Office apps from day one. Learn what’s new in and get a complete, step-by-step guide to each of its main programs, along with details on Publisher, OneNote, and Office Web Apps. With this Missing Manual on hand, you’ll be creating professional-quality documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and databases in no time.

Office 2010: The Missing Manual is a great way to master Office 2010 without having to stock up on a shelfload of books. Packed with illustrations and friendly advice, it’s truly the book that should have been in the box.

  • Learn everything from basic word to desktop and web publishing with Word
  • Use tables, graphics, and videos to create sophisticated Word documents
  • Manage your contacts and keep track of your schedule with Outlook
  • Quickly create and edit PowerPoint presentations, and snazz them up with videos and sound
  • Build spreadsheets, use functions and formulas, and create charts and graphics with Excel
  • Design databases and manage large stores of text, numbers, and pictures with Access [Read more...]

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Pro Telerik ASP.NET and Silverlight Controls

July 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Pro Telerik ASP.NET and Silverlight Controls


This provides a complete guide to implementing Telerik’s range of ASP.NET and . Telerik are invaluable for ASP.NET and Silverlight developers because they provide a vast array of rich targeted for the presentation layer of applications. Telerik offers you solutions for the reports, grids, charts, and text-editing controls that you need but don’t want to build from scratch yourself—the options are endless for increasing the functionality of any of your solutions.

What you’ll learn

  • Understand how to integrate the standard Telerik controls into any ASP.NET or Silverlight solution to increase and usability.
  • Incorporate the Telerik extensions for ASP.NET .
  • Learn to implement Telerik Open Access and ORM for all your data access requirements.
  • Understand the new functionality provided by the WebAii Testing Framework.
  • Work with the full API to master using the entire suite of controls. [Read more...]

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Office and SharePoint 2010 User’s Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access and Word

July 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Office and SharePoint 2010 User’s Guide


Web sites, collaboration, document management, paperless offices—we want it all in business today, but how do we achieve all of these goals? More importantly, if you work for one of the millions of small-to-medium-sized businesses, how do you find the time to build the expertise necessary to reach these goals? Even the most powerful tool will not allow you to succeed unless you can get the majority of your staff to use it efficiently and effectively. You need a guide that demonstrates a platform that small-to-medium-sized businesses can use to reach these goals.

Office and User’s Guide demystifies the path that every user can follow to benefit from the synergism of tools they are already familiar with. Together with SharePoint 2010, users can achieve goals like web sites with a consistent single view, improved collaboration within their organization, and better document management, and may even get one step closer to the paperless office we’ve been promised for years. This book has topics for Office users of all skill levels, from those just starting to use Office tools to experienced power users. It examines each major Office tool and shows how it contributes to the support and use of SharePoint in today’s increasingly electronic-based office environment. [Read more...]

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