JavaScript Bible, 4th Edition
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Greatly enhanced and updated from the third edition, this is the title any JavaScripter cannot afford to be without! JavaScript Bible, 4th Edition covers the new powerful functionality JavaScript will gain with the release of new revs of Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator. This book features essential new JS information, additional ready-to-use JavaScript applications, and scores of additional JavaScripts and Web page routines. As with the last edition, this book will bring non-technical professionals, including casual programmers and scripters, painlessly up to speed on all aspects of mastering JavaScript, including programming fundamentals, JavaScript language elements, and how to use them effectively, and how to easily and efficiently add powerful new functionality to HTML documents and Java applets.
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Aimed at the HTML designer with or without previous programming experience, the JavaScript Bible, Fourth Edition, brings a popular text up to date with a full tour of using JavaScript with all of today's Web browsers. Smart, very approachable, and filled with many useful tips, this book can put JavaScript development into the reach of just about anyone.
After presenting a solid tour of basic programming in JavaScript, the book centers in on the issues of developing JavaScript applications for real browsers. This means truly comprehensive coverage of the document object model (DOM), HTML, window and frame objects, forms, and style sheets that are available today. In about 1,000 pages (and almost 30 chapters), you learn what's available in today's JavaScript standard with a reference listing every object, API, and property, plus tips on how to use each feature. All this material makes this text an extremely worthwhile desktop reference for everyday JavaScript development. In particular, we liked that support (or lack thereof) for every feature is clearly documented across the full range of today's browsers from Netscape Navigator 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 to Internet Explorer 3 through 5.5. Later chapters move toward the JavaScript language itself, with material on strings, math functions, and dates. The author discusses techniques for adapting JavaScript to particular browsers as well as providing cross-browser support where appropriate. Short exercises end each chapter, and the book presents sample solutions in an appendix. Additional CD-ROM chapters move beyond the whopping 1,200 pages of printed material. In all, the author's patient, clear writing style and real-world advice for creating great-looking Web pages with JavaScript make this title a winner. Readers of previous editions of the JavaScript Bible will appreciate the updated focus on current browsers. For anyone who wants to learn JavaScript for the first time, this edition is arguably an unbeatable choice. --Richard Dragan Topics covered:
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This book is a great resource for when you're looking for that specific line of code. Its terrible to read from front to back, but its an excellent way to find exactly what you're looking for. Its so much code, it'll make your eyes bleed.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-11-30 06:30:05 EST)
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lo bueno es el comparativ de que funciona en que versión de cada producto, muy util para resolver chicharrones cuando se necesitaban certificar aplicaciones (funcionalidades)bajo varios navegadores
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-16 21:20:17 EST)
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| 02-04-04 | 4 | 1\4 |
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This book is great,coves probably everything there is to cover in javascript but...........if you have never doen anything like this before you should start out with something more siple first,although the book claims new people to web programming, the new people will have a hard time with it.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-09 17:45:19 EST)
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| 11-05-03 | 3 | 1\3 |
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I would give this book a five star rating for its content if it were easier to locate what I want. Particularly vexing is that the author has placed some of the content only on the CD with listings page such as 'CD-281.' After months of looking I can not find the files designated as 'CD' on the CD.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-09 17:45:19 EST)
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| 07-11-03 | 5 | 5\5 |
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As a non-programmer (graphic designer), I am finding this book helpful. The author does a good job not assuming too much except familiarity with html. He uses real-life comparisons to make concepts understandable. The writing style is friendly and very thorough. I was struggling to learn Javascript from Paul Wilton's Beginning Javascript. This book is making things clear that I was stumped on by approaching it very methodically, building on the simplest examples. I have also ordered 'Official Netscape Javascript 1.2 Book' by Kent which I heard was beginner-friendly. I find programmers have a hard time relating to us non-programmers! Goodman seems to have a grasp of how to present these basics to the 'rest of us'.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-07 09:51:03 EST)
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| 07-03-03 | 5 | 2\5 |
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The "Java Script Bible" is one of the few technical books that live up to its title. It starts with the author's view of Java Script's role in the Internet, some of the challenges of dealing with the different browsers, and writing your first Java Script. This section is followed by an extensive tutorial. The tutorial covers browsers and document objects, HTML Documents, programming variables, expressions, data type conversions, decisions structures and loops, functions, arrays and windows objects. No area is left uncovered from the DOM model to Cascading Style Sheets, to XML. The book ends with a detailed section on the core language reference.
The book has examples of work-arounds for bugs, example scripts (most of which are also included on the enclosed CD-ROM). There are other excellent books available but none cover all the details of Java Script to the extent this book does. This is the most highly recommended book on Java Script that I have read to date - an absolute must on any Java Script programmer's bookshelf. (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-09 17:45:19 EST)
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| 06-29-03 | 5 | 2\3 |
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The best JavaScript book on the market, now also covering IE5+, NN6 and W3C DOM browser topics are covered in detail.
There is a lot of content here, almost too much and it may even be hard to find. I think Goodman reached the point where splitting everything into two different books could make more sense. One nasty downside is that eight chapters are available only from the CD (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-09 17:45:19 EST)
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| 06-16-03 | 4 | (NA) |
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I have started java programming with Core Web Programming by Marty Hall, and this was excellent book to start with.
However, after I finished book I was akin for more information and details. Then I bought this book which covers not only the JavaScript but whole DHTML, CSS, DOM, HTML. Book is excellent and it is very worth of buying. If offers many many information about programming CSS HTML. However I would recomend buying it together with Marty Hall's book since the first one gives you good overview of the other tehcnologies not mentioned here (JSP, Servlets) - if you are interested in... (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-02 13:41:30 EST)
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| 08-02-02 | 5 | 2\9 |
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I find this the perfect book for anyone new to any type of programming. This book has the perfect pace for a beginner. Anyone a bit more experienced can skim through the book though and find what all the important parts.
For javascript, I find this to be the only book i need. It has all the references I need when scripting. For learning java and for reference, I find this to be very, very, helpful. (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-07 09:51:03 EST)
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| 06-26-02 | 5 | 1\9 |
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I only own 1 javascript book - This One!
Why do I only own 1? Well this one is written by one of the most (publicly) knowledgeable JavaScript authors on Earth - Danny Goodman - and comes with a commendation from Brendan Eich (the guy who created JavaScript). That, a healthy imagination and a desire to learn are good enough for me :-) (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-07 09:51:03 EST)
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| 06-11-02 | 5 | 1\2 |
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At my work, everyone has a personal copy of this work. I always resisted buying my own copy and would just borrow it from a colleague. It so happened one day that I could not get my hands on the book when I was stuck while working on a page that had to be served on many browsers, I thought that it was the time to get my own. Since then I have been so impressed by this book that I now have 2 copies, one at work and one at home.
This book is clearly a 5 star. Use this book as a reference and you will find answers to almost every question you may have. Ironically this does not cover latest browsers such as IE6, and I am sure Goodman is working on the latest edition. (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-07 09:51:03 EST)
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| 05-21-02 | 3 | 1\2 |
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A nice book - IF - you remember that it is a reference book, NOT a tutorial. Big difference there.
To be fair, Goodman does explain in quite some detail about how browsers work, and what happens when a web page loads. Beyond that, if you are looking to learn JavaScript, I don't think this is the book to do it, monumental as it is to the task of being a "bible" on the subject. Get another real tutorial first, and then come back and learn the "innards" of JavaScripting. Goodman definitely knows his stuff, but a tutorial this is not. It is, simply put, a "bible." (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-07 09:51:03 EST)
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