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Date Added: Oct 12, 2006 Hits: 116 Rating: 5.00 Votes: 1

JavaScript is great, but at best it is a complementary language for Web development. JavaScript for the World Wide Web offers a productive, how-to style that lets you solve a problem or pick up a trick and then move on with the rest of your work.
Consistent with other members of Peachpit's Visual QuickStart Guide series, this title makes wise use of side-by-side explanations and screen shots, as well as code snippets and their analysis. This approach gives readers the feeling that the authors are sitting by their side and showing them how to code scripts. Most subjects are handled with numbered steps, such as "Validating Zip Codes," and useful tips punctuate the text.

The book introduces the whole concept of JavaScript in a fast-moving but readable chapter and then moves into solving real-world challenges. The authors do a good job of covering JavaScript's capabilities, from eye-catching graphics tricks to data-entry form processing and cookie management. Particularly enjoyable is the way the book spells out many of the differences between Netscape and Microsoft dynamic HTML approaches.

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Date Added: Oct 12, 2006 Hits: 52 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0

This is a reference, so don't expect it to teach you JavaScript through any sort of tutorial (though reading the object descriptions can be very illuminating, indeed). Cliff Wootton has chosen to organize his work alphabetically, like a giant encyclopedia of objects, reserved words, operators, filters, and other aspects of JavaScript and the DOM standards. A cross-reference that associates individual properties, methods, and event handlers with the objects to which they belong appears as an appendix. Once you've located the entry of the object you want, you'll have easy access to inheritance information, a syntax summary, and plain-English advice on what the object does. Tables provide implementation details for each property, method, and event handler, so you know which versions of which browsers support the language feature you want to use. There also are references to standards documents, and, sometimes, illustrations of how to use the language element in working code. Illustrations are rare but generally effective in clarifying the significance of language elements and the relationships among objects

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Date Added: Oct 12, 2006 Hits: 26 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0

A comprehensive online book designed to provide web developers with everything they need to know to create rich, interactive and dynamic web pages using JavaScript.

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Date Added: Jun 14, 2007 Hits: 17 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0

Develop your next generation web applications with the YUI JavaScript development library.
Improve your coding and productivity with the YUI Library
Gain a thorough understanding of the YUI tools
Learn from detailed examples for common tasks

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Date Added: Apr 8, 2008 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0