JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Beta Version (Nutshell Handbooks) - Softcover

David Flanagan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565921933 ISBN 13: 9781565921931

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 1996

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of Java in a Nutshell comes the definitive guide for JavaScript, the HTML extension that allows programs to be embedded in Web pages, making them more active than ever before. In this book, David Flanagan describes how JavaScript really works (and when it doesn't). With JavaScript, you can control Web browser behavior, add dynamically created text to Web pages, interact with users through HTML forms, and even control and interact with Java applets and Navigator plugins. JavaScript is not an alternative to Java, but an ideal partner. Since JavaScript is a simple language that can be embedded directly into a Web page, without need for compilation, it is accessible to more Web page authors, and may actually have a larger short-term impact on the Web and on Internet computing than Java itself. JavaScript is still beta software and is rapidly evolving. This book documents the version of JavaScript shipped with Navigator 2.0, 2.0.1, and 2.0.2, and also the much-changed version of JavaScript shipped with beta versions of Navigator 3.0. The 3.0 information is current as of the 3.0b4 release. Includes coverage of the frustrating bugs encountered in the beta version of JavaScript, as well as a complete reference section that documents every oject, property, method, event handler, function, and constructor used by client-side JavaScript.

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Review

Provides a rapid and thorough exposition of the JavaScript programming language, as well as an in-depth reference section covering each JavaScript function, object, method, and even handler. Experienced programmers will quickly find the information they need to start writing JavaScript programs.

From the Back Cover

JavaScript is a simple scripting language that is directly embedded in HTML Web pages. It allows you to control the behavior of the Web browser, add dynamically created text to your Web pages, interact with the user through HTML forms (without CGI scripts), and, in version 3.0 of Netscape Navigator, even control and interact with Java applets and Navigator Plug-Ins. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide provides a rapid and thorough exposition of the JavaScript programming language, as well as an in-depth reference section covering each JavaScript function, object, method, and event handler. HTML authors will learn how to use JavaScript to build dynamic Web pages. Experienced programmers will quickly find the information they need to start writing JavaScript programs. And all JavaScript programmers, regardless of experience level, will find the book an indispensable reference to the JavaScript language and classes.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565921933
• ISBN 13: 9781565921931
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 454