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Summary: This book has to be better
Comment: Reading this book will help you to understand what javascript is and how to use it. Most of all the different concepts of Javascript are explained with examples. That's I rate it 3 stars. But 40% of the interesting examples are not working properly(the most of time seeking where the fault in the given example is). This book is half worth its money, thus I'm half satisfied, and I'm keeping looking for beter book. For beginners this book is not yours.
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Summary: A classic JavaScript reference...
Comment: There are a few books in the IT realm that are classics... ones that have gone past their second or even third edition. This is one of them... JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (5th Edition) by David Flanagan. I like this comprehensive JavaScript reference manual much more than others that I have on my shelf.
Contents:
Part 1 - Core JavaScript: Lexical Structure; Datatypes and Values; Variables; Expressions and Operators; Statements; Objects and Arrays; Functions; Classes, Constructors, and Prototypes; Modules and Namespaces; Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions; Scripting Java
Part 2 - Client-Side JavaScript: JavaScript in Web Browsers; Scripting Browser Windows; Scripting Documents; Cascading Style Sheets and Dynamic HTML; Events and Event Handling; Forms and Form Elements; Cookies and Client-Side Persistence; Scripting HTTP; JavaScript and XML; Scripted Client-Side Graphics; Scripting Java Applets and Flash Movies
Part 3 - Core JavaScript Reference
Part 4 - Client-Side JavaScript Reference
Index
Flanagan has the somewhat rare opportunity to update a book that deals with a technology that is actually mature, stable, and pretty well implemented by all the browser clients. Trying to writing this book in the late 90's would have been an impossible nightmare. Now the core JavaScript language has solidified, making it easier to decide what chapters work and which ones need tweaks. It also allows the author to add chapters that touch on new ways that JavaScript is being used today, such as Ajax. Once you get past Part 1 (the core reference/tutorial information), you learn how JavaScript can be leveraged in ways that weren't envisioned until recently. In particular, there was some interesting material on cookies that I haven't seen anywhere else. Parts 3 and 4 are the sections where you'll spend most of your time looking up those pesky parameters you can't remember on a day-to-day basis, and the layout is very easy to follow and find what you need. I liked it a lot...
I have a different JavaScript reference manual at work, but it's never been one that I've relished having to use. This volume is slated to take over that shelf space next week... Great job.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best Javascript Book
Comment: This is the best book on Javascript. If you are doing serious amounts of Javascript on the front end, or in some scripting environment, this is worth getting. If you are doing something small, like data validation, you can probably get by with the Dynamic HTML book instead. I gave it five stars because it is such an excellent book on Javascript alone.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Definitve Guide is a modest description
Comment: The O'Reilly books, for the most part, are some of the best written. But this book in particular, is an essential for any web developer or programmer and in my opinion, the best book ever written on Javascript.This book covers a massive range of material in the Javascript language using realistic examples and clear explanations. It can be used both as a learning tool and an important resource which I refer back to often for my Javascript needs. Items I found to be especially useful about this book were the Appendix areas, the way that just about any term is included in the index, and the listings of implicit objects with their properties, methods,arguments, and the accompanying explanations and examples. The book also incorporates how to concatenate JS with Java and with HTML for forms validation, one of the most important uses of the language. Definitely a true treasure amongst a sea of programming books! Val Fahey
E-Commerce Analyst
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Summary: Not what I had hoped for corporate IE 6.0 intranets
Comment: JavaScript is not well organized nor standardized which makes it inherently confusing to work with at an advanced level. But the organization of this book does not help matters. Too often I find myself with book marks in 5+ places as part of researching a fairly basic technique. Some of the examples are overly complex and not real-world. If your customer is standardized on IE 6.0 there are some things missing (contenteditable and document.selection for example). The subtitle "The Definitive Guide" may not be warranted.
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