JavaScript is one of the most important technologies on the web. It provides the means to add dynamic functionality to your web pages and serves as the backbone of Ajax-style web development. Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax is an essential guide for modern JavaScript programming; its practical but comprehensive. It covers everything you need to know to get up to speed with JavaScript development to add dynamic enhancements to web pages and program Ajax-style applications.
Experienced web developer Christian Heilmann begins gently by giving you an overview of JavaScriptits syntax, good coding practices, and the principles of DOM scripting. Then he builds up your JavaScript toolkit, covering dynamically manipulating markup, changing page styling on the fly using the CSS DOM, validating forms, dealing with images, and much more. Then he takes you to advanced territory, with a complete case study illustrating how many new JavaScript techniques can work together, plus a great introduction to Ajax development.
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Rating: - It's about time
I have been going through a lot of javascript books to find that all of them want to teach you the trivial things javascript can do. Not only are the examples trivial, they teach the reader horrible habits. This book doesn't have any "Hello World" examples. It gets into what javascript SHOULD be used for, and how to use it correctly. Other reviews have said that the examples do not work. Do not let that throw you off. I went through the ENTIRE book and every single example worked for me. There are ... Read More
Rating: - Emphasize "beginner"; "professional" part is false
Just be aware of what you're getting into when you buy this book. It is *for beginners*, not for experienced developers. It spends the first 90 pages covering for- and while-loops, if-tests, and the rest of the machinery that you already know if you're an experienced programmer. It is the fate of most computer books, I'm afraid, that they either address rank beginners or professional software developers, with few addressing those in the middle.
After every chapter, I had to take a second ... Read More
Rating: - Meh...
He makes me cringe because he describes a lot of practices that are just really cheesy and annoying. People new to programming who start with this book are not going to advance the state of javascript enabled websites. Also, the examples are overly long. There's a 4 page example for each concept.
Rating: - Bookmarked throughout - lots of useful stuff
I liked this book - it has many real applications and explanations. I found myself slipping in markers on lots of pages so that I could come back for information that I knew I needed or showed a better way to code something that I had already done.
Rating: - Buy DOM Scripting (friendsOfEd) instead
Don't let the all-inclusive title of this book fool you - it really doesn't seem to teach that much more than what you could learn by reading DOM Scripting (from Friends of ED). DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model
I keep running into a custom object in the code examples of the book called "DOMhelp". While I like the author's ideas about scripting in a more object oriented way, this does not help at all when trying to demonstrate DOM Scripting. For example, ... Read More
- It's about time
- Emphasize "beginner"; "professional" part is false
- Meh...
