Advanced JavaScript: Insights and Innovative Techniques - Softcover

Livingston, Dan

9780130478917: Advanced JavaScript: Insights and Innovative Techniques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130478911 ISBN 13: 9780130478917

Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr, 2002

For readers who know how to get around the language pretty well, and already have more references than they can keep in a single bookshelf, a web developer synthesizes some recent developments in the JavaScript that he finds most interesting. His tutorial and cookbook also includes inspiration in the form of scripts by some masters. He assumes anyone interested in such detail is a professional. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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From the Back Cover:

The definitive source for professional JavaScript code.

100+ task-oriented solutions—fully explained
Move beyond the basics—master forms, validation, and cookies
Manage hierarchical menus, regular expressions, XML, and Macromedia Flash integration
Master security, stylesheets, browsers, DHTML, and DOM programming
Real code for real clients... no "stupid JavaScript tricks"!

100+ real-world solutions fully explained.

Advanced JavaScript, Insights and Innovative Techniques provides an arsenal of powerful solutions to your most difficult Web development challenges. Dan Livingston dissects the code created by top JavaScript developers, revealing the tricks of the masters. From hierarchical menus to XML and Macromedia Flash integration, experience the cutting edge of JavaScript and discover the emerging techniques you need to solve real problems.

Advanced JavaScript, Insights and Innovative Techniques covers:

Hierarchical menus: arrays, main functions, and behaviors
FolderTree: complex hierarchical tree views of folders and documents
Using regular expressions to extract data and replace text
Using JavaScript to import and read XML
Calling JavaScript from Flash movies
Stylesheets, DHTML, and the Document Object Model (DOM)
Mouseovers: image replacement, rollover functions, preloading, submenus, and more
Dropdown menus, including navigation and altering menu content
Form elements: text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, and text areas
Validating user data, credit card numbers, and other form input
Dynamic table configurations: from basic report making to advanced techniques
News scrollers, layer sliders, and other advanced applications
Cookies, list manipulation, communicating among frames, swapping image maps, and much more

About the Author:

DAN LIVINGSTON, founder of Wire Man Productions, has over six years' experience as a leading-edge Web developer, serving leading clients such as Apple, Charles Schwab, Pacific Bell, and Landor. His sites have garnered awards from Yahoo! and USA Today, have been featured on CNN, and have earned kudos from the Los Angeles Times and human interface guru Donald Norman. His many Prentice Hall PTR books include Advanced SOAP for Web Development, Essential XML for Web Professionals; Advanced Flash 5 ActionScript in Action; and Essential CSS & DHTML for Web Professionals, Second Edition.

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