JavaScript for the World Wide Web, Fifth Edition

by Tom Negrino, Dori Smith

The Web doesn't stand still—not even for a minute—and neither do the languages that Web pages are based on. That's why you need this eagerly anticipated update to the popular JavaScript for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide. Through a combination of task-based instruction and strong visuals, best-selling authors and Web gurus Tom Negrino and Dori Smith take you step by step through all of today's JavaScript essentials; creating navigation bars and other user interface elements, producing dynamic images and smart forms, controlling and detecting browsers, creating and manipulating windows, validating user entries in Web forms, and more. Whether you're a beginning scripter who wants a thorough introduction to the topic or a more advanced scripter who needs a convenient reference, you'll find what you need here—in straightforward language peppered with tips and techniques drawn from the authors' years of experience. By the end of the volume, you'll be able to smoothly integrate HTML, JavaScript, and CSS to bring your Web sites to life.

Genres: Programming, Nonfiction, Computers, Website Design

480 pages, Paperback

First published December 12, 1981

Reviews

[Charles · Rating 1 out of 5]

For short this book really wasn't that great. Being an experienced web designer with some college education, I'd have to say this is way behind the times. The implication of the book is way behind the CSS and XHTML standards with extremely outdated techniques. I will say that it is a good quick reference but to add on the list of cons it lacks explaining how anything you're using really works. So you're usually just blindly plugging code into pages with this book. Which is dangerous because if you have to fix or adjust something and don't know what to adjust it could cost you hours of frustration as it did me.

Instead I suggest an O'reilly book on JavaScript (especially the cook book series) because they have more up to date techniques. If you don't understand JavaScript at all, you should probably pick up a copy of Head First JavaScript which teaches you the language from head to toe in a creative and unique manner. Subtract a star if you don't like outdated material and add one if you're a Quickstart book series fan.

[Valeriy · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is easy to read, but deprecated

[Rene Dupre · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm learning JavaScript and had this book from 2003. It was dated, but still a good supplement to my online work and coding.