Developing Web Widget with HTML, CSS, JSON and AJAX: A Complete Guide to Web Widget

* Revised and updated, 2nd Edition 2/11/2012 * THE HANDS-ON, TUTORIAL-BASED GUIDE TO BUILDINGSECURE AND HIGH PERFORMANT WEB WIDGETGet up to speed for developing web widget with designguidelines, standard practices, security measures andtechniques for high performance.Developing Web Widget with HTML, CSS, JSON and Ajaxis the first guide to creating web widgets, tiny web applicationsthat can be embedded in a web page, blog or social profile.Inside, author of the bestselling book Creating Vista Gadget,Rajesh Lal provide readers with a methodology for buildingwidget using standard web technologies like HTML, CSS, andJavaScript. Developing Web Widget starts with a step-by steptutorial starting from Hello World Widget to an advanced WebWidget which uniquely identifies the user based on the url andnot only display user data but also update data.Reader will learn how to use techniques to ensure securityand add high performance to the web widget. You will alsolearn how to create RSS based widgets using Ajax, ProxyServer and Google Ajax Feed API and Widgets based onFacebook APIs.The star Widget developed in the book is now a popularfree service. To see it live, visit http://addrating.comAll code can be downloaded from the companion website.http://widgets-gadgets.com andhttps://github.com/rajlal/DevelopingWebWidget

Rajesh Lal is an author, designer and developer with a decade of experience in desktop, web and mobile application development. He has authored two other books on Creating Vista Gadget and Smartphone Web development. He likes to take a pragmatic approach to solving problems and make extra effort to present technical details in easy to understand manner. Lakshmi Chava is a software engineer with eight years of experience in web design and development.