O'Reilly Open Source Convention - August 1-5, 2005

Session
Building Responsive Web UIs with DHTML
Alex Russell, Project Lead, SitePen

Track: Linux
Date: Friday, August 5th, 2005
Time: 11:35am - 12:20pm
Location: D135
Web apps are request/response systems, but a new generation of responsive UIs are building better end-user experiences by masking these round-trips. Learn what tools and techniques are available for building the interactivity available in Gmail and Flickr without the steep DHTML learning curve. Topics include:
- Survey/overview of tools and techniques
- How to design on the server side for responsive clients
- Upgrading existing apps incrementally
- DHTML vs. Flash
- Performance and deployment considerations
- Using the new Dojo Toolkit to build responsive UIs with markup instead of script