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In this Second Edition of the popular DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model, comes a modern revision to include current best practices and guidelines. There is also full coverage of HTML5 in a new, dedicated chapter, and details on JavaScript libraries and how they can help your scripting.
The book gives you everything you need to start using JavaScript and the Document Object Model to enhance your web pages with client-side dynamic effects and user-controlled animation. It shows you how JavaScript, HTML5, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) work together to create usable, standards-compliant web designs. We'll also cover cross-browser compatibility with your DOM scripts and how to make sure they degrade gracefully when JavaScript isn't available.
DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model focuses on JavaScript for adding dynamic effects and manipulating page structure on the fly using the Document Object Model. You'll start off by receiving a crash course in JavaScript and the DOM, then move on to several real-world examples that you'll build from scratch, including dynamic image galleries and dynamic menus. You'll also learn how to manipulate web page styles using the CSS DOM, and create mark-up on the fly.
This book is perfect for your needs if you want to create websites that are beautiful, dynamic, accessible - and standards compliant!
What you’ll learn
- Apply dynamic behavior to your pages without inserting JavaScript in your markup.
- Write scripts that degrade gracefully when JavaScript isn’t available.
- Use web standards to ensure cross-browser compatibility.
- Harness the power of the DOM to create user-controlled animation.
- Also includes an introduction to Ajax.
Who this book is for
This book is for web developers wanting to expand their knowledge of the DOM to add interactivity and functionality to their web pages.
Table of Contents
- A Brief History of JavaScript
- JavaScript Syntax
- The Document Object Model
- A JavaScript Image Gallery
- Best Practices
- The Image Gallery Revisited
- Creating Markup on the Fly
- Enhancing Content
- CSS-DOM
- An Animated Slideshow
- HTML5
- Putting It All Together
- DOM Scripting Libraries
About the Author
Jeremy Keith is a web developer living and working in Brighton, England. Working with the web consultancy firm Clearleft (Clearleft.com), he enjoys building accessible, elegant websites using the troika of web standards: XHTML, CSS, and the DOM. His online home is Adactio.com. Jeremy is also a member of the WebStandards.org, where he serves as joint leader of the DOM Scripting Task Force. When he's not building websites, Jeremy plays bouzouki in the alt. country band Salter Cane (SalterCane.com). He is also the creator and curator of one of the web's largest online communities dedicated to Irish traditional music, TheSession.org.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Learned a lot from this book
25 Jan 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Why I bought this book: Building dynamic websites looks like fun. The first edition got great reviews. I decided to buy the second edition because it contains some info about HTML5.
My review: I thoroughly enjoyed the book and finished it in a few days. It is a friendly introduction to the DOM, CSS, and Javascript. It was helpful that I already went through the quick W3C online tutorials on HTML, DOM, CSS, and Javascript. That's all you really need as prerequisites. The book explains many issues clearly and in a step-by-step fashion. There are several typos but they were pretty obvious and did not hinder my learning. The code examples are fun.
My review: I thoroughly enjoyed the book and finished it in a few days. It is a friendly introduction to the DOM, CSS, and Javascript. It was helpful that I already went through the quick W3C online tutorials on HTML, DOM, CSS, and Javascript. That's all you really need as prerequisites. The book explains many issues clearly and in a step-by-step fashion. There are several typos but they were pretty obvious and did not hinder my learning. The code examples are fun.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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16 Feb 2011
Format:Paperback
HTML 5 is here, okay... but wait, to understand the power of html5 and actually use it, you need to know javascript.
While searching for a good book and reading reviews on HTML5, one comment struck my attention: "You better get into javascript before... and I recommend DOM Scripting by..."
After searching for this book I decided to go with it. It is simply amazing and does teach you the basics of javascript for any beginner entry level.
The book is well explained and above all, it doesn't only tells you to copy paste the code, but it actually explains step by step why you use this and why you use that and the thumb rules and shows you not one way to do it, but two ways and it's up to you to choose which way you want to code javascript.
Without any prior knowledge of javascript, this has definitely opened a new door.
This is really the book that anyone who is starting to learn Javascript from scratch needs. I have been avoiding it for very long and also intimated by taking this step, but if you look into the future, if you don't know javascript, you can't use HTML5 and its rich features. HTML5 will be the new standard, also as browser manufacturers are racing into implementing new standards and features. NOT learning javascript is no longer an option, but a MUST if you want to survive in the Web Industry as HTML5 is here to stay!
You can't go wrong with this book. You just can't.
While searching for a good book and reading reviews on HTML5, one comment struck my attention: "You better get into javascript before... and I recommend DOM Scripting by..."
After searching for this book I decided to go with it. It is simply amazing and does teach you the basics of javascript for any beginner entry level.
The book is well explained and above all, it doesn't only tells you to copy paste the code, but it actually explains step by step why you use this and why you use that and the thumb rules and shows you not one way to do it, but two ways and it's up to you to choose which way you want to code javascript.
Without any prior knowledge of javascript, this has definitely opened a new door.
This is really the book that anyone who is starting to learn Javascript from scratch needs. I have been avoiding it for very long and also intimated by taking this step, but if you look into the future, if you don't know javascript, you can't use HTML5 and its rich features. HTML5 will be the new standard, also as browser manufacturers are racing into implementing new standards and features. NOT learning javascript is no longer an option, but a MUST if you want to survive in the Web Industry as HTML5 is here to stay!
You can't go wrong with this book. You just can't.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A good introduction
6 Feb 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I bought this book because I'm pretty comfortable using html and css to build static web-pages, and wanted to learn what I could add with Javascript. The book delivered on this front, providing a series of examples that walk you through the process of adding javascript enhancements to your html.
The coverage of javascript itself is relatively minimal - just what you need to do to complete the examples. I'll definitely be spending some time with a more thorough reference (book or website) to get a deeper understanding of the language. That said, this is still a very valuable book. Many of the javascript reference books I've seen cover the language in great depth, but leave me wondering "where do I start? how do I actually use this stuff on a webpage?". Dom Scripting takes the opposite approach - you can dig up language details pretty easily on the web, so here are some best practices for tying it all together.
The examples are built up in small increments, starting with the basic behaviour, rounding out the rough edges, and making sure your code follows standard practices and degrades gracefully in older browsers.
Four stars. It's a good, but not perfect book. A little more variety in the examples, and perhaps a quick-reference/glossary/appendix for basic language constructs would extend the value of the book for newcomers.
The coverage of javascript itself is relatively minimal - just what you need to do to complete the examples. I'll definitely be spending some time with a more thorough reference (book or website) to get a deeper understanding of the language. That said, this is still a very valuable book. Many of the javascript reference books I've seen cover the language in great depth, but leave me wondering "where do I start? how do I actually use this stuff on a webpage?". Dom Scripting takes the opposite approach - you can dig up language details pretty easily on the web, so here are some best practices for tying it all together.
The examples are built up in small increments, starting with the basic behaviour, rounding out the rough edges, and making sure your code follows standard practices and degrades gracefully in older browsers.
Four stars. It's a good, but not perfect book. A little more variety in the examples, and perhaps a quick-reference/glossary/appendix for basic language constructs would extend the value of the book for newcomers.
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