Refactoring HTML: Improving the Design of Existing Web Applications
by Elliotte Rusty Harold
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Like any other software system, Web sites gradually accumulate "cruft" over time. They slow down. Links break. Security and compatibility problems mysteriously appear. New features don't integrate seamlessly. Things just don't work as well. In an ideal world, you'd rebuild from scratch. But you can't: there's no time or money for that. Fortunately, there's a solution: You can refactor your Web code using easy, proven techniques, tools, and recipes adapted from the world of software show more development. In Refactoring HTML, Elliotte Rusty Harold explains how to use refactoring to improve virtually any Web site or application. Writing for programmers and non-programmers alike, Harold shows how to refactor for better reliability, performance, usability, security, accessibility, compatibility, and even search engine placement. Step by step, he shows how to migrate obsolete code to today's stable Web standards, including XHTML, CSS, and REST--and eliminate chronic problems like presentation-based markup, stateful applications, and "tag soup." The book's extensive catalog of detailed refactorings and practical "recipes for success" are organized to help you find specific solutions fast, and get maximum benefit for minimum effort. Using this book, you can quickly improve site performance now--and make your site far easier to enhance, maintain, and scale for years to come. Topics covered include * Recognizing the "smells" of Web code that should be refactored * Transforming old HTML into well-formed, valid XHTML, one step at a time * Modernizing existing layouts with CSS * Updating old Web applications: replacing POST with GET, replacing old contact forms, and refactoring JavaScript * Systematically refactoring content and links * Restructuring sites without changing the URLs your users rely upon This book will be an indispensable resource for Web designers, developers, project managers, and anyone who maintains or updates existing sites. It will be especially helpful to Web professionals who learned HTML years ago, and want to refresh their knowledge with today's standards-compliant best practices. This book will be an indispensable resource for Web designers, developers, project managers, and anyone who maintains or updates existing sites. It will be especially helpful to Web professionals who learned HTML years ago, and want to refresh their knowledge with today's standards-compliant best practices. show lessTags
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Elliotte Rusty Harold is the author of Cafe au Lait, an important online resource for Java-related news
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- Refactoring HTML: Improving the Design of Existing Web Applications
- First words
- Refactoring. What is it? Why do it? In brief, refactoring is the gradual improvement of a code base by making small changes that don't modify a program's behavior, usually with the help of some kind of automated tool.
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- Katz, Howard; Gironda, Andrew; Lavallee, Matt
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- Technology, Nonfiction
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- 006.74 — Computer science, information & general works Computer science, knowledge & systems Special computer methods (AI, barcoding, VR, web design, social media) Multimedia systems Markup Language
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- TK5105.888 .H372 — Technology Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear Telecommunication
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