28 June 2006
AJAX Desktop Tutorial
Posted by Mikhail Esteves under: AJAX; Tips .
The purpose of this tutorial is to explain, step-by-step, how to create an AJAX desktop/homepage.
Our goal is to get up and running quickly so we will not delve deep into each subject. At the end of the tutorial I’ve included a resource section for further reading.
The tutorial will cover:
- How to detect IE/Firefox correctly
- What is the DOM and how to manipulate it using Javascript
- How to dynamically create widgets using the DOM (+ using CSS with Javascript)
- How to capture and react to mouse events
- How to drag widgets
- How to manipulate zIndex (the depth/order of widgets on the screen)
- Background about AJAX and JSON
- How to load RSS feeds into widgets
- How to create search widgets