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Paperback: 840 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 2nd Edition edition (13 Jan 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 047022780X
ISBN-13: 978-0470227800
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.8 x 5.3 cm

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This eagerly anticipated update to the breakout book on JavaScript offers you an in–depth look at the numerous advances to the techniques and technology of the JavaScript language. You′ll see why JavaScript′s popularity continues to grow while you delve through topics such as debugging tools in Microsoft Visual Studio, FireBug, and Drosera; client–side data storage with cookies, DOM storage, and client–side databases; HTML 5, ECMAScript 3.1, the Selectors API; and design patterns including creational, structural, and behavorial patterns.

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Professional JavaScript® for Web Developers, 2nd Edition

If you want to achieve JavaScript′s full potential, it is critical to understand its nature, history, and limitations. This book sets the stage by covering JavaScript from its very beginning to the present–day incarnations that include support for the DOM and Ajax. It also shows you how to extend this powerful language to meet specific needs and create seamless client–server communication without intermediaries such as Java or hidden frames.

You′ll explore basic concepts of JavaScript including its version of object–oriented programming, inheritance, and its use in HTML and XHTML. A detailed discussion of the components that make up a JavaScript implementation follows, with specific focus on standards such as ECMAScript and DOM. All three levels of DOM are explained, including advanced topics such as event simulation, XML parsing, and XPath queries. You′ll also learn how to utilize regular expressions and build dynamic user interfaces. This valuable insight will help you apply JavaScript solutions to the business problems faced by Web developers everywhere.

What you will learn from this book

All of the details regarding JavaScript′s built–in reference types
How to use object–oriented programming in JavaScript
Ways to detect the client machine and its capabilities
Debugging tools and techniques for each browser
Steps for reading and manipulating XML data
How to create a custom event framework
Various techniques for storing data on the client machine
Approaches to working with JavaScript in an enterprise environment

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 and for those with programming experience, especially object–oriented programming experience.

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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5.0 out of 5 stars Modern, clear, useful, 1 Jun 2005

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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...

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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential information with a practical approach, 7 Sep 2006

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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).

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tip Top, 18 Nov 2006

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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!!!

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