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Professional JavaScript (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)

by Nigel McFarlane (Author), Paul Wilton (Author), Cliff Wootton (Author), et al (Author)
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  • Paperback: 1088 pages
  • Publisher: WROX Press Ltd; 2nd Revised edition edition (1 Oct 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1861005539
  • ISBN-13: 978-1861005533
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 18.3 x 6.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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Book Description
JavaScript is the language of the Web. It has an intuitive, accessible nature and is available with most modern browsers. JavaScript is used for making dynamic, interactive web pages - from form validation to creating games to dynamic menus - but its uses also go much further. Hardly a single commercial web page exists today that does not contain some JavaScript.

This second edition of Professional JavaScript provides comprehensive coverage of the JavaScript language, its syntax and uses. We look at the latest web browsers and web standards, and move on to examine practical techniques in the form of short examples and more in-depth and complex case studies. This book will focus entirely on the use of JavaScript within the web browser, since this is predominantly where it is used.

This book covers

Core JavaScript programming
Scripting browser objects
Working with multimedia
Web standards, including XML, CSS, & W3C DOM
Dynamic HTML
Debugging techniques
Regular expressions and form validation
Real world case studies
The ECMAScript Edition 4 proposal


From the Publisher
This book is for anyone who needs to use JavaScript for client-side web development. You may already be familiar with JavaScript, and need an up-to-date advanced guide, or have experience in another programming language and need to pick up JavaScript as a new skill.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A very good book, but not for amateurs, 26 Jul 2000
By kbp@r-u-e.dk (Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Professional JavaScript with DHTML, ASP, CGI, FESI, Netscape Enterprise Server, Windows Script Host, LiveConnect and Java (Paperback)
With the title professional JavaScript this book is obviously not for beginners. But as an experienced web-programmer I found this book very useful. It gives a very in depth explanation of the language, and can be extremely useful for those of us, who already now the basics, such as length(of String) = Stringname.length . such banalities are not discussed in this book, which I am pretty happy with. If you already know some JavaScript, buy this book to go to the next level.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The only book on Javascript you'll ever need to buy., 1 Jul 2001
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This review is from: Professional JavaScript with DHTML, ASP, CGI, FESI, Netscape Enterprise Server, Windows Script Host, LiveConnect and Java (Paperback)
You'll love this book if, like me, you like to push JavaScript to its limits. This is JavaScript for the pros as the title suggests. If you just want to dabble with some simple DHTML don't waste your money on this one. Sure JavaScript is only a scripting language, but for web client side scripting there's nothing better and this book allows you to make the most of it.

It covers both server and client side JavaScript in great detail although ADO (for database access in ASP) is off limits. The appendices in the back include document object models for IE and Netscape (though not Netscape 6 as the last reprint was Feb 2000) - plus the ASP DOM which is extremely useful. Sadly the Wrox Ultimate HTML database listing is a complete waste of space.

By teaching you to solve your own problems using JavaScript, rather than solving a selection of them for you, this book puts the power in your hands. I don't see how any real developer could enjoy using a language any other way? If you don't enjoy scripting - why script? Despite being published in 1999 this book is still the best out there. Nuff said I reckon ;-)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good start to explaining the jargon of JavaScript, 20 Nov 2000
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This review is from: Professional JavaScript with DHTML, ASP, CGI, FESI, Netscape Enterprise Server, Windows Script Host, LiveConnect and Java (Paperback)
JavaScript is a programming language designed to be used in conjunction with HTML, making HTML more powerful and interactive. It is now fully supported in Netscape Navigator 3. With JavaScript, Web page creators without deep technical experience can embed commands into their HTML pages that call up pre-cooked Java animations, add clocks and other time-based features , allow web pages to ask questions and gather information from visitors to the page, and provide other simple controls. While other JavaScript books are intended for experienced programmers, this one is for the vast majority of HTML coders who are less technically sophisticated but still would like to get their feet wet. This book will pick up where Laura Lemay's "Teach Yourself Web Publishing" and "HTML 4 for the WWW" left off.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Get Beginning JavaScript
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1.0 out of 5 stars Full of errors and no information.
The section on Regular Expressions is in two locations, useless and wrong. Trying to find information in this book is worse than usless. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars 3 ½ stars for this book. It is pretty good
Overall this book helped me out with a lot of problems, though I think that the examples could have been a little better. Read more
Published on 23 Mar 2000 by chris.souto@usa.net

1.0 out of 5 stars Very, very poor.
If you don't know any Java Script then this book won't help you. If you already know Java Script inside out you'll find huge swathes of information missing. Read more
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