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Summary: Web Designers required reading!
Comment: Every web designer/developer picks up JavaScript at some stage, often learning by using scripts and snippets from the web. However, nothing is faster or more efficient than using your well-learnt knowledge to get the task done. JavaScript, contrary to popular thought, is a very powerful language and if used correctly (i.e. coupled with the DOM) can achieve fast and effective interfaces.
Jeremy Keith really knows his stuff and has put together an easy to understand, yet comprehensive guide to utilising the DOM through JavaScript. I found, through reading this book, that I now KNOW a lot of what I use on a daily basis, which has helped me to make much better decisions about using code and how to get the job done with less code and in a timely-fashion.
If you haven't bought this book; Shame on you! If you have, then you should be buying this for your work-mates!
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Summary: Great read for a person who knows CSS, wants to learn everything about the DOM, and is eventually working up to AJAX.
Comment: This book it to JavaScript as CSS Mastery is to CSS. While not a book on JavaScript mastery in the slightest, it's really really good, and will teach you 98% of everything you need to know, relevant to JavaScript and the DOM. Just like efficient CSS design that separates the presentation layer from the design layer, it'll teach you how to separate (JavaScript) behavior from design, and how to ensure backwards compatibility through "graceful" degradation. That means your sites still work if the person disables or doesn't have JavaScript support.
Thank you Jeremy Keith. This book was worth every dollar I spent on it. I feel completely ready to start on Ajax in Action (a book I had previously set aside because of lack of knowledge about JavaScript and the DOM.)
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Summary: A great review of DOM scripting and how-to that isn't boring
Comment: As a experienced javascript user who got her start in the old-school javascript of IE and netscape V3 I knew the landscape had changed since the transition to ECMA script, real CSS support, and better DOM implementations across browsers.
Sometimes when you know an old method it's harder to develop the "good habits" that come with a more evolved version of the language and few resources really help with making that transition and discarding old bad habits and approaches.
DOM Scripting does just that. This approachable text is accessable for the person dabbling in javascript as well as those like me who occassionaly get into involved javascript work and developed skills and habits based on outmoded development model. It covers the concepts clearly and simply without being boring.
If you know some Javascript and want to do some nice DOM scripting this book is a great bootstrap. Another useful tool is Danny Goodman's Javascript Bible book.
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Summary: It's more of a beginers book
Comment: It describes Javascript as used in web design and not as a separate language. Most Javascript books are like other language guides, you learn the language but have no idea what to do with it. This book is about manipulating the elements (& nodes) of a web page. It's easy to read and understand. After this you can go learn more about Javascript if you need to.
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Summary: Excellent!
Comment: Must have it excellent book. I also recomend CSS Mastery. Great books for library.
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