- Paperback: 672 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (26 April 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0764579088
- ISBN-13: 978-0764579080
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.8 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 565,523 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- Dispels the myth that JavaScript is a "baby" language and demonstrates why it is the scripting language of choice used in the design of millions of Web pages and server–side applications
- Quickly covers JavaScript basics and then moves on to more advanced topics such as object–oriented programming, XML, Web services, and remote scripting
- Addresses the many issues that Web application developers face, including internationalization, security, privacy, optimization, intellectual property issues, and obfuscation
- Builds on the reader′s basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and the Web in general
This book is also available as part of the 4–book JavaScript and Ajax Wrox Box (ISBN: 0470227818). This 4–book set includes:
- Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (ISBN: 0764579088)
- Professional Ajax 2nd edition (ISBN: 0470109491)
- Professional Web 2.0 Programming (ISBN: 0470087889)
- Professional Rich Internet Applications: Ajax and Beyond (ISBN: 0470082801)
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Professional JavaScript for Web Developers
JavaScript is an important feature of every major browser because it enables enhanced user interaction on both Web sites and Web applications. While exploring everything from its history to today′s advanced features, this book shows you how to use this powerful language to its full potential in order to develop your own applications that solve the business problems facing Web developers today.
You′ll gain a clear understanding of the components that make up a JavaScript implementation, plus you′ll examine critical areas including events, regular expressions, and browser detection techniques so that you can build dynamic user interfaces. You′ll also learn how to extend the language to meet your specific requirements as well as create seamless client–server communication without intermediaries such as Java or hidden frames.
What you will learn from this book
- ECMAScript basics, object–oriented programming techniques, and important Document Object Model (DOM) concepts
- How to implement regular expressions for data validation and string manipulation
- Methods for handling events to tie JavaScript to a Web user interface
- Techniques for validating data, sorting tables, and dealing with errors
- How to communicate between JavaScript and browser plugins
- All about security issues, optimization, and intellectual property protections
Who this book is for
This book is for Web developers who want to use JavaScript to dramatically improve the usability of their Web sites and Web applications.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real–world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
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49 of 50 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Not a book for beginners, though it does cover Javascript basics enough for most programmers in other languages. Modern, thorough, well thought through and dealing with practical problems - not those of image rollovers and noddy stuff, but deeper things, such as dealing with cross browser differences in event handling, etc.. Goes into depth on the DOM and XML, coding styles and the 'inheritance' model of Javascript. In short, the kinds of things professionals trying to build 'Googlesque' user interfaces will need. It's not a reference manual, and it's not really a 'cook book', it's something in between, and it is the best technical read I've come across for a while! I've learnt a lot - not least that Javascript is a lot more now than it was...
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Being a software developer with limited knowledge of JavaScript (I have mostly developed in Java), I was looking for a book on JavaScript, that could teach me the do's and don'ts of JavaScript.
This is the book!
Instead of being a complete reference guide (like most recent JavaScript books are), this book takes a broader approach to the subject, explaining _why_ JavaScript/ECMAscript works like it does, how to work with eg. Objects and interitance, and last but not least it explains how to make your JavaScript work consistently in most browsers, despite the obvious differences in implementation of JS.
I highly recommend this book, if you have some programming skills, possibly basic knowledge of JavaScript and want to explore the full potential of clientside JavaScript - in a "professional" context (no tips on text-scrolling and the like).
This is the book!
Instead of being a complete reference guide (like most recent JavaScript books are), this book takes a broader approach to the subject, explaining _why_ JavaScript/ECMAscript works like it does, how to work with eg. Objects and interitance, and last but not least it explains how to make your JavaScript work consistently in most browsers, despite the obvious differences in implementation of JS.
I highly recommend this book, if you have some programming skills, possibly basic knowledge of JavaScript and want to explore the full potential of clientside JavaScript - in a "professional" context (no tips on text-scrolling and the like).
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Excellent book! This is still the best and most in depth Javascript book I have come across. A great companion if you want to take things just that little bit further is Sitepoints DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using Javascript & DOM by Stuart Langridge.
Tip top don't pass this one over!!! WHY HAVEN'T YOU BOUGHT IT YET!!!
Tip top don't pass this one over!!! WHY HAVEN'T YOU BOUGHT IT YET!!!
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Need a JavaScript book...this is it
If your a web developer like myself that has worked with various languages and as such has had to work with JavaScript but not actually really grasped the language fully this is... Read more
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Nice to dip into
If you have been doing javascript for a while and came across all these ajax libraries using odd techniques like "prototype". Read more
Published on 19 Nov 2007 by BinaryJam
Dated and not for real programmers. Handle examples with extreme...
I have enormous problems with this dated, confused and 'gappy' book, and advise would be readers to exercise _extreme_ caution with it, particularly with the examples, a great... Read more
Published on 16 July 2007 by C. S. Ward
Excellent book for the intermediate to advanced developer
I've been developing using JavaScript for 8 years now; during that time I've bought the O'Reilly JavaScript book, as well as their DHTML one and that was my bible, but they tend to... Read more
Published on 4 July 2007 by G. Hinton
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