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Why reinvent the wheel every time you run into a problem with JavaScript? This cookbook is chock-full of code recipes that address common programming tasks, as well as techniques for building web apps that work in any browser. Just copy and paste the code samples into your project -- you’ll get the job done faster and learn more about JavaScript in the process.
You'll also learn how to take advantage of the latest features in ECMAScript 5 and HTML5, including the new cross-domain widget communication technique, HTML5's video and audio elements, and the drawing canvas. You'll find recipes for using these features with JavaScript to build high-quality application interfaces.
- Create interactive web and desktop applications
- Work with JavaScript objects, such as String, Array, Number, and Math
- Use JavaScript with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and the canvas element
- Store data in various ways, from the simple to the complex
- Program the new HTML5 audio and video elements
- Implement concurrent programming with Web Workers
- Use and create jQuery plug-ins
- Use ARIA and JavaScript to create fully accessible rich internet applications
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book on Javascript follows the O'Reilly Cookbook series 'recipe' format, laying out a whole list of practical problems and tasks that (aspiring) Javascript developers are faced with, and provides the solution and background discussion needed to truly get the task done, and understand the reasoning behind it.
The first few chapters of the book start of by explaining the basics of the Javascript language, providing insights and tips around working with strings, numbers, arrays, loops, functions, events etc... A seasoned Javascript programmer will probably already be familiar with most of this functionality, but I found it interesting enough to keep on reading these 'basic' chapters, because the author gives a good background explanation and points to more obscure or browser-specific problems that arise when using these concepts.
The next few chapters go a little deeper into error handling, debugging, the different methods to accessing DOM elements, and adding interactive functionality to your webpages. The author took a very interesting approach with the chapter on interactive elements, by focusing highly on having the ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) attribute set baked in into the examples. I hadn't used this myself before, and found it truly fascinating to read how to make rich Javascript interactions accessible to all users, with only a few lines of added code in most cases.
The more advanced chapters in the book explain in great detail the newer cutting edge functionalities that are starting to be implemented by most browsers, including working with HTML5 audio & video elements and persistent data storage, SVG graphics, canvas elements, etc ... The book even covers topics that are just recently included (or even not included yet) in modern browsers, giving the reader an idea of what the exiting new functionalities are about, and how to leverage them. In the last chapter we leave the browser and explore Javascript in other environments, such as browser extensions, mobile widgets, etc..
One downside of the book is that it doesn't take IE6 into consideration anymore, which is unfortunately not the case in real life situations. Perhaps some more information on how to provide graceful degradation for IE6 would have been helpful.
Overall this book provides a lot of great insights and best practices regarding a wide range of topics, aimed at Javascript developers with various skill sets, and is very thorough and detailed in its explanations.
The first few chapters of the book start of by explaining the basics of the Javascript language, providing insights and tips around working with strings, numbers, arrays, loops, functions, events etc... A seasoned Javascript programmer will probably already be familiar with most of this functionality, but I found it interesting enough to keep on reading these 'basic' chapters, because the author gives a good background explanation and points to more obscure or browser-specific problems that arise when using these concepts.
The next few chapters go a little deeper into error handling, debugging, the different methods to accessing DOM elements, and adding interactive functionality to your webpages. The author took a very interesting approach with the chapter on interactive elements, by focusing highly on having the ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) attribute set baked in into the examples. I hadn't used this myself before, and found it truly fascinating to read how to make rich Javascript interactions accessible to all users, with only a few lines of added code in most cases.
The more advanced chapters in the book explain in great detail the newer cutting edge functionalities that are starting to be implemented by most browsers, including working with HTML5 audio & video elements and persistent data storage, SVG graphics, canvas elements, etc ... The book even covers topics that are just recently included (or even not included yet) in modern browsers, giving the reader an idea of what the exiting new functionalities are about, and how to leverage them. In the last chapter we leave the browser and explore Javascript in other environments, such as browser extensions, mobile widgets, etc..
One downside of the book is that it doesn't take IE6 into consideration anymore, which is unfortunately not the case in real life situations. Perhaps some more information on how to provide graceful degradation for IE6 would have been helpful.
Overall this book provides a lot of great insights and best practices regarding a wide range of topics, aimed at Javascript developers with various skill sets, and is very thorough and detailed in its explanations.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Definitely not for an absolute beginner. Not because it is written in a hard-to-understand way because it certainly is not. It is clear and easy to read. You just need to have the basic principles of JavaScript clear before you start this book.
Once you have the basics straight this book allows you to explore, in manageable chunks, new areas of JavaScript with immediate practical uses. You will learn better if you can see the point of what you are trying to do and with this book that's the main emphasis.
Highly recommended for someone who can write a basic script but who wants to make the step up to major projects without the stress of starting a major project of your own and getting confused. It will probably then stay useful by being a reference book when you come across things you can't do in the future.
I only dropped the rating to a four because some of what is mentioned is not really viable yet and sometimes it's not totally clear why the author chose what to cover. What is in the book is mostly superb and well-written.
Once you have the basics straight this book allows you to explore, in manageable chunks, new areas of JavaScript with immediate practical uses. You will learn better if you can see the point of what you are trying to do and with this book that's the main emphasis.
Highly recommended for someone who can write a basic script but who wants to make the step up to major projects without the stress of starting a major project of your own and getting confused. It will probably then stay useful by being a reference book when you come across things you can't do in the future.
I only dropped the rating to a four because some of what is mentioned is not really viable yet and sometimes it's not totally clear why the author chose what to cover. What is in the book is mostly superb and well-written.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
When I started learning JavaScript years ago I was constantly running into niggly little problems that would hold me up until I found a way of getting round them. There were no end of books and web pages around that would give you examples of doing dynamic HTML with all the bells and whistles, but what I needed was something that covered the basics. This book does just that covering everything fro the very basics of concatenating strings and handling regular expressions, through using the canvas element to draw dynamic line drawings right the way up to doing all the flashy DOM manipulation. The advantage of the cookbook format is that you don't have to wade through chapters of dense text to find the things that you need, it's all there in the table of contents. You just dip in and get what you need out. This means of course that your only picking up snippets of knowledge, so you need a grounding in the basics first, but once you can get those under your belt, this book will let you get on a lot faster than trial and error alone.
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