Javascript Developer's Dictionary

JavaScript Developer's Dictionary covers all the essential functions, methods, and objects of JavaScript in an easy-to-find, logical order.

JavaScript, and each different version of JavaScript, interacts very differently with each variety of Web browser, leaving Web developers scrambling to write code that will work in all the major browsers. JavaScript Developer's Dictionary brings all these variants into one volume, breaking down every object in the JavaScript language and how it applies to each browser.

Wherever possible, the book also provides workarounds for earlier versions of JavaScript and for direct inconsistencies. The emphasis throughout this book is on compatibility across many versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer.

Alexander James Vincent is a Web design expert based in Vallejo, CA. Born and raised in Seattle, WA, he served 23 months in the United States Navy as a Seaman Journalist. Following his tour of duty, he returned to the field of computers he grew up around and discovered JavaScript. Since then he has become a standards evangelist for Web design, and works to encourage best practices in coding for all Web languages, client- and server-side. He moderates the JavaScript Programming Help forum and writes tutorials for Website Abstraction at wsabstract. He also contributes Quality Assurance efforts to the Mozilla project. He is currently in the process of completing the design of his JavaScript Laboratory site at jslab, a project he set aside while writitng the JavaScript Developer's Dictionary. He is a huge fan of the Seattle Mariners, and hopes to see them in a World Series one day soon.