ISBN-13: 9781590590720 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 392 str.
11m INTERNET HAS DEVELOPED at an astonishing pace over the past several years. Until quite recently, most Web sites consisted of a collection of static pages linked in a web of hyperlinks and anchor tags. From these humble origins, a typical Web site today is a rich, graphically intense experience that interacts with the user. are more feature-rich than ever before, and developers face Currently, Web sites the dual challenges of delivering rich features and delivering good performance. The best Web site in the world will impress no one if the pages will not load quickly and the user is kept waiting. At best, you risk annoying the user and hav- ing them leave your site, never to return. At worst, you can lose revenue if the site in question is a high-volume e-commerce site that must perform quickly and reliably for a large number of users. Today's sophisticated Web users demand functionality and performance, and they are unsympathetic to any tradeoff between the two. As a developer, and as a reader of this book, you need to know the tools and techniques to provide users with both. A Web application is simply a collection of display elements and busi- ness components that collaborate to provide a workspace for accomplishing tasks.