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Programming HTML5 Applications

Zachary Kessin

Beijing • Cambridge • Farnham • Köln • Sebastopol • Tokyo

Programming HTML5 Applications

by Zachary Kessin

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ISBN: 978-1-449-39908-5

1315947718

Table of Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

1. The Web as Application Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Developing Web Applications

Adding Power to Web Applications

2. The Power of JavaScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

JavaScript's Triumph

Non-blocking I/O and Callbacks

Lambda Functions Are Powerful

Closure

Functional Programming

Prototypes and How to Expand Objects

Expanding Functions with Prototypes

Currying and Object Parameters

Array iteration operations

You Can Extend Objects, Too

3. Testing Javascript applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

QUnit

A Simple Example

Testing with QUnit

Mocking and Stubs

Selenium

Selenium Commands

Constructing tests With the Selenium IDE

Automatically running tests

Selenese Command Programing Interface

Running QUnit from Selenium

Selenium RC and a test farm