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DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model [Paperback]

Jeremy Keith
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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: FRIENDS OF ED (1 Sep 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1590595335
  • ISBN-13: 978-1590595336
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 19 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 142,910 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
    #88 in  Books > Computing & Internet > Web Development > Web Design > Website Design
    #85 in  Books > Computing & Internet > Programming > Languages > HTML & XHTML
    #21 in  Books > Computing & Internet > Programming > Languages > JavaScript
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We know from the success of titles such as Web Standards Solutions, Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation, and the Web Designer's Reference that web designers are increasingly concerned with making sites that don't just look pretty, but are also built using current best practices.There are three main technologies married together to create usable, standards-compliant web designs: XHTML for data structure, Cascading Style Sheets for styling your data, and JavaScript for adding dynamic effects and manipulating structure on the fly using the Document Object Model.This book is about the latter of the three. DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model gives you everything you need to start using JavaScript and the Document Object Model to enhance your web pages with client-side dynamic effects. Jeremy starts off by giving you a basic crash course in JavaScript and the DOM, then move on to provide you with several real world examples built up from scratch including dynamic image galleries and dynamic menus, and show you how to manipulate web page style using the CSS DOM, and create markup on the fly.

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!, 11 Oct 2005
This review is from: DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model (Paperback)
Okay, if you're reading this, you're at least considering buying this book. Don't waste any more time, buy it now.

I started writing websites at the end of the nineties and I used to use a lot of JavaScript. However, it was all very hacky, partly because I didn't know how to do it otherwise and partly because making it any neater seemed like a whole lot of effort.

Over the last year or so, I've got back into web design and like a lot of people have been seduced by the clarity of using CSS for design. However, the more I got into style sheets, the more I was repulsed by the thought of sullying my sites with JavaScript as I knew it, and had pretty much begun to pride myself on my now complete avoidance of it.

Then I started to hear more and more about the combination of not only (X)HTML and CSS but also JavaScript, in ways that were thoroughly "web standards" and "accessibility" compliant. So, I got Jeremy's book from Amazon and have devoured it in less than a week.

This book makes DOM Scripting (JavaScript) seem so easy and so part of web standards that I now feel silly for thinking otherwise. If you feel like you now have a feeling for the basics of why/how to use CSS to make sites, then there is absolutely no reason that you shouldn't also understand all of the ideas here. If anything, the ideas interlocked so well with how I (and I think, lots of people) have come to think about web site structure, that they have helped me have a clearer picture of XHTML and CSS.

The book develops several standalone enhancements to the functionality of websites throughout its chapters and these are combined beautifully to give a great demo site near the end. This site, in the spirit of unobtrusive scripting, championed throughout the book, works perfectly with JavaScript disabled, but is clearly, simply, and yet massively enhanced if JavaScript is enabled.

A lovely book which I find it hard to imagine having been written any better than it was.

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Left me racing to implement these methods on my own sites!, 24 Jan 2006
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Summary: Fantastic book.

Being efficient in XHTML and CSS i wanted to add something to these skills. This book did that. The DOM is something that i knew little about, after reading this book i now have a firm grasp of what can be done. Its not only how to use it, its the why and when that the author describes so fantastically well.

When everyone thinks about Javascript they think usability and accessibility problems straight away. This book addresses these issues extremely well and shows you how to implement clever scripts.
Everything is explained in detail without being patronising. The examples build and build to the final exercise where you put your new found knowledge to use. I couldn't wait to put the book down and go straight to my PC and use these techniques.

Probably the best book i have read and recommend the author to write many more.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A great, methodical guide to the black art of DOM scripting, 5 Dec 2005
This review is from: DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model (Paperback)
I didn't buy this straightaway, thinking that I'd be able to find most of the content on various websites, but I'm very glad I took the plunge. There's lots in here that's of immediate practical use, as well as plenty of food for thought about how you put a site together more generally, in terms of separating structure, behaviour and presentation.

The code examples are clearly explained, but I did feel it helped to have some background with CSS and PHP as the book dives right into function calls, object properties and the like - and yet does a good job of making these accessible.

If there's a weakness, I'd say it occasionally takes too long to make its point, e.g. going step by step through very similar code examples at times. From a reader's point of view, Jeremy's coding style seems quite perfectionist, showing successively better or neater ways to write a given piece of code - that's no bad thing though, and the rationale is always explained clearly.

This is a book that deserves a wider audience - the potential power of DOM scripting is awesome, and this will help people comfortable with basic scripting to make the leap to building more sophisticated, impressive and robust web applications.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The most lucid book on DOM scripting yet!
This is simply the most lucid book on DOM scripting yet! I am not an Anorak and I don't normally read textbooks from cover to cover but this book was an exception. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Best Practices... Yes, but why not go all the way?
This book is a very fine (as in gentle) introduction to JavaScript and using it unobtrusively by using best practices. And it does a fine job... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great JavaScript starting point in the right direction
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good understandable introduction to JavaScript and DOM
This book is a good basic introduction to understanding JavaScript and the concept of the DOM model and is the recommended reading for the Programming module for my University... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars great book!
really well written, clear and concise with plenty of examples.

highly recommended. i also got a "friends of ed" book on css and that was excellent as well... Read more
Published on 28 July 2008 by bollos

3.0 out of 5 stars Good on the whole - but far too much padding!
A good sound treatment of DOM Scripting, but one glaring error and a huge amount of wasted space - apart from a wide blank left margin used only for page numbers, the *whole* of a... Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2008 by Michael E. Taylor

5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the best book on JavaScript - Doing it properly!
Since I started observing web standards and trying to produce websites that were accessible to the widest possible audience I've tried to avoid JavaScript assuming my sites... Read more
Published on 22 Feb 2008 by Sean Johnson

5.0 out of 5 stars Ignore Yorkshire UK's comment..!
I'm so glad I did as it nearly put me off buying this book. It's not platform nor browser dependent, the examples contained therein work in every major recent browser as their... Read more
Published on 5 Jun 2007 by F. Lewis

5.0 out of 5 stars Best start for a non programming Designer
I found this book an amazing read in that, firstly it is readable rather than a manual. Secondly, it is immensely easy to understand for those who haven't done much in the way of... Read more
Published on 15 Jan 2007 by M. Gordon

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ADDENDUM:::BIG WARNING::: This book appears to be IE and Windows platform dependent. If you are interested in writing Javascript that is cross platform and cross browser... Read more
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