JavaScript: The Complete Reference

by Thomas A. Powell, Fritz Schneider

This fully updated definitive JavaScript guide covers the latest features—including its uses in Ajax and HTML5-based Web applications

JavaScript: The Complete Reference, Third Edition is completely revised to cover the newest changes to JavaScript up to version 1.9, the latest browser-specific features for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome, as well popular JavaScript frameworks like jQuery. All examples presented focus on the emergence of HTML5 and its various APIs including canvas, storage, and more.

This comprehensive guide shows you how to build dynamic, cross-browser Web sites and applications using JavaScript. You’ll learn not only the syntax of language, but its related object models, and combine this knowledge to develop practical applications.

JavaScript: The Complete Reference, Third Edition

Covers the newest versions of JavaScript, DOM, and Ajax (XMLHttpRequest) specifications Updated for latest browsers and specifications including HTML5 Includes the newest features of JavaScript Addresses modern JavaScript coding techniques popularized since the previous edition

Comprehensive coverage:
Introduction to JavaScript; JavaScript Core Features; Data Types & Variables; Operators, Expressions & Statements; Functions; Objects; Array, Date, Math; Regular Expressions; JavaScript Object Models; The Standard DOM; Event Handling; CNT, Windows & Frames; Handling Documents; Form Handling; DHTML and Beyond; Canvas; JavaScript UIs; Browser Detection; Cookies & Persistence; JS & Embedded Objects; Ajax and Remote JS; JavaScript and XML; Browser Specific JS; JavaScript Security; JavaScript Practices

Genres: Computers, Programming, Technology

1514 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 20, 2001

Reviews

[Matt Ward · Rating 5 out of 5]

I picked this book up in 2005, when I started to have a more significant need for JavaScript. Although there was a great deal of information available on the internet, I was looking for a more centralized repository of knowledge.

This book proved to be just what I was looking for, and just what it's title promised. There has not been to many problems that this book has not been able to help me solve. And, for those rare occasions where I could not solve the problem, it was more often than not due to the simple fact JavaScript simply could not be made to perform a particular task.

To this day, I still refer to this book on a regular basis.

[Jeff Stewart · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good reference, but very dry if you try to read straight through it.

[Brenda · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a very comprehensive book on JavaScript (as its name implies). Though the book is quite old, it still includes a lot of useful information. Anyone who wants to get a more overall picture of JavaScript could get a lot out of this book.

[Sandeep Dattaraju]

"This book gives complete idea of javascript and how to use in our web application. The examples in the book, the codes given are really useful"

[Jean]

Used for reference only.