Pro JavaScript Techniques

by John Resig

Overview

This book addresses today’s approach to JavaScript in detail: modern browser support, including information on Internet Explorer 7; Object-Oriented JavaScript; testing and debugging; unobtrusive JavaScript techniques using DOM Scripting; Ajax; creating and using blocks of reusable code, and the future of JavaScript. All the concepts expressed in this up-to-the-minute reference are thoroughly backed up with real world examples and full-scale case studies. The book offers reusable functions for readers to use in their own projects, a significant time-saver. Also included are several reference sections that allow developers to look up details quickly and easily.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590597279
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	12/13/2006
Series:	Expert's Voice in Web Development Series
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

John Resig is a programmer and entrepreneur who's been developing web applications for over eight years. Having primarily focused on back-end development for most of that time using Perl and MySQL, John changed his focus toward implementing usable web front ends. He holds a degree in computer science from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, and has published several papers on data mining instant messaging networks. When he's not programming, he enjoys watching movies, writing in his blog, www.ejohn.org, and spending time with his girlfriend.

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Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
"Modern" JavaScript programming is radically different than the ad hoc scripting you might've learned years ago. Today, you can write code that's powerful, more disciplined, more robust, and viable in many more applications and environments. Pro JavaScript Techniques is the definitive guide to today's JavaScript coding -- and tomorrow's.

Author John Resig systematically covers today's JavaScript best practices: techniques that draw from multiple sources, are thoroughly object oriented, and let you use JavaScript in entirely new ways. Resig guides you in creating more reusable code, performing better testing and debugging, optimizing CSS interactions, working more efficiently with events and DHTML, and much more.

Yes, there's also a full section on Ajax programming. And it includes no less than three chapter-length case studies, including form validation and secure authentication. The third is "autocomplete search": a nice way to make your programs just a little more usable and responsive. Bill Camarda, from the February 2007 Read Only