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This fully updated definitive JavaScript guide covers the latest featuresincluding its uses in Ajax and HTML5-based Web applications
JavaScript: The Complete Reference, Third Edition is completely revised to cover the newest changes to JavaScript up to version 1.9, the latest browser-specific features for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome, as well popular JavaScript frameworks like jQuery. All examples presented focus on the emergence of HTML5 and its various APIs including canvas, storage, and more.
This comprehensive guide shows you how to build dynamic, cross-browser Web sites and applications using JavaScript. Youll learn not only the syntax of language, but its related object models, and combine this knowledge to develop practical applications.
JavaScript: The Complete Reference, Third Edition
- Covers the newest versions of JavaScript, DOM, and Ajax (XMLHttpRequest) specifications
- Updated for latest browsers and specifications including HTML5
- Includes the newest features of JavaScript
- Addresses modern JavaScript coding techniques popularized since the previous edition
Comprehensive coverage:
Introduction to JavaScript; JavaScript Core Features; Data Types and Variables; Operators, Expressions and Statements; Functions; Objects; Array, Date, Math; Regular Expressions; JavaScript Object Models; The Standard DOM; Event Handling; CNT, Windows and Frames; Handling Documents; Form Handling; DHTML and Beyond; Canvas; JavaScript UIs; Browser Detection; Cookies and Persistence; JS and Embedded Objects; Ajax and Remote JS; JavaScript and XML; Browser Specific JS; JavaScript Security; JavaScript Practices
Synopsis
The essential JavaScript resource--fully updated
Design, debug, and publish high-performance web pages and applications using tested techniques and best practices from expert developers. The all-new edition of this comprehensive guide has been thoroughly revised and expanded to cover the latest JavaScript features, tools, and programming methods.
JavaScript: The Complete Reference, Third Edition provides illustrative examples, line-by-line code samples, and practical development advice--from the core of the language to the various standard and emerging APIs supported by modern web browsers. This in-depth resource covers everything you need to know, whether you're trying to understand the fundamentals of weak typing in JavaScript, reduce your confusion over closures, or perform common tasks like form validation or Ajax calls.
- Explore core JavaScript syntax and data types
- Investigate often confusing concepts such as weak typing and closures
- Use object-oriented programming the JavaScript way
- See what changes come from ECMAScript 5
- Perform dynamic content updates using DOM methods
- Handle user-generated events with modern event models
- Modernize form handling with HTML5 and JavaScript
- Use the XMLHttpRequest object to create Ajax applications
- Control animation and multimedia content with JavaScript
- Generate bitmap graphics with the Canvas API
- Learn methods to handle the challenges of cross-browser coding
- Discover defensive development and error handling
Synopsis
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The essential JavaScript resource--fully updated
Design, debug, and publish high-performance web pages and applications using tested techniques and best practices from expert developers. The all-new edition of this comprehensive guide has been thoroughly revised and expanded to cover the latest JavaScript features, tools, and programming methods.
JavaScript: The Complete Reference, Third Edition provides illustrative examples, line-by-line code samples, and practical development advice--from the core of the language to the various standard and emerging APIs supported by modern web browsers. This in-depth resource covers everything you need to know, whether you're trying to understand the fundamentals of weak typing in JavaScript, reduce your confusion over closures, or perform common tasks like form validation or Ajax calls.
- Explore core JavaScript syntax and data types
- Investigate often confusing concepts such as weak typing and closures
- Use object-oriented programming the JavaScript way
- See what changes come from ECMAScript 5
- Perform dynamic content updates using DOM methods
- Handle user-generated events with modern event models
- Modernize form handling with HTML5 and JavaScript
- Use the XMLHttpRequest object to create Ajax applications
- Control animation and multimedia content with JavaScript
- Generate bitmap graphics with the Canvas API
- Learn methods to handle the challenges of cross-browser coding
- Discover defensive development and error handling
About the Author
Thomas Powell, lecturer for the University of California, San Diego, is the author of
HTML & CSS: The Complete Reference and
Ajax: The Complete Reference. He is president and founder of PINT, a Web site design and development firm.
Fritz Schneider is a software engineer at Google where he works on both front- and back-end systems. His previous experience includes social search service Aardvark and an earlier stint at Google where he founded Google's Firefox and Safe Browsing teams. Fritz is an experienced teacher of Web technologies and coauthor of How to Do Everything with Google.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to JavaScript;
Chapter 2. JavaScript Core Features;
Chapter 3. Data Types and Variables;
Chapter 4. Operators, Expressions and Statements;
Chapter 5. Functions;
Chapter 6. Objects;
Chapter 7. Array, Date, Math;
Chapter 8. Regular Expressions;
Chapter 9. JavaScript Object Models;
Chapter 10. The Standard DOM;
Chapter 11. Event Handling;
Chapter 12. Cnt. Windows and Frames;
Chapter 13. Handling Documents;
Chapter 14. Form Handling;
Chapter 15. DHTML and Beyond;
Chapter 16. Canvas;
Chapter 17. JavaScript UIs;
Chapter 18. Browser Detection;
Chapter 19. Cookies and Persistence;
Chapter 20. JS and Embedded Objects;
Chapter 21. Ajax and Remote JS;
Chapter 22. JavaScript and XML;
Chapter 23. Browser Specific JS;
Chapter 24. JavaScript Security;
Chapter 25. JavaScript Practices