Tài liệu Project 5: Working with JavaScript

The speed and power of JavaScript are growing exponentially.
All modern web browsers, including Google’s Chrome, Mozilla’s
FireFox, Apple’s Safari, and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, can
render JavaScript at close to machine code levels. In addition,
work by standards groups, such as W3C and WASP, ensures
that JavaScript will run consistently from one web browser to
another.
Ajax libraries are great examples of demonstrating JavaScript
running effectively between browsers. In this final project you are
going to extend a popular Ajax library, jQuery, to create a simple
lightbox effect to a product photo library.
Working with jQuery
There are many Ajax libraries you can use to rapidly
extend what you can do on your web site. You can download
the files for this project at www.visualizingtheweb.com. You
will see that there are two Ajax libraries included in the package:
jQuery and Spry. Both libraries are open source. The first,
jQuery, is arguably the most popular Ajax library. You can
check out www.jquery.com for detailed information on how
to use the library. The second library, Spry, is developed as
an open-
source project managed by Adobe (Figure 5.1Proj).
Adobe’s web management tool, Dreamweaver, now ships with
native support for Spry.