Professional JavaScript 2nd Edition

JavaScript is the language of the Web. It has an intuitive, accessible nature and is available with most modern browsers. JavaScript is used for making dynamic, interactive web pages - from form validation to creating games to dynamic menus - but its uses also go much further. Hardly a single commercial web page exists today that does not contain some JavaScript.

This second edition of Professional JavaScript provides comprehensive coverage of the JavaScript language, its syntax and uses. We look at the latest web browsers and web standards, and move on to examine practical techniques in the form of short examples and more in-depth and complex case studies. This book will focus entirely on the use of JavaScript within the web browser, since this is predominantly where it is used.

This book covers

Core JavaScript programming
Scripting browser objects
Working with multimedia
Web standards, including XML, CSS, & W3C DOM
Dynamic HTML
Debugging techniques
Regular expressions and form validation
Real world case studies
The ECMAScript Edition 4 proposal

Nigel McFarlane, Paul Wilton, Cliff Wootton, Mark Baartse, Stuart Conway, Jean-Luc David, Sing Li, Sean B Palmer, Jon Stephens, Margie Virdell, Stephen Williams, Jeff Yates.

Nigel McFarlane lives in Melbourne where he studies science, teaches and consults in the programming industry and slips in the occasional bit of writing. He's worked extensively with database, telecommunication and Web technology software.

After an initial stint as a Visual Basic applications programmer at the Ministry of Defence in the UK, Paul Wilton found himself pulled into the Net. Paul's main skills are in developing web front ends using DHTML, JavaScript, VBScript, and Visual Basic, and back-end solutions with ASP, Visual Basic, and SQL Server.

Cliff Wootton works on multimedia systems and content management software for large data-driven web sites. Recent work includes architectural design and development of components for several award-winning broadcast/entertainment websites, and the BBC News Interactive TV service.