JavaScript Bible

This new edition updates the cornerstone volume in learning to use JavaScript in browser scripting since the earliest days of scriptable browsers. A lot has changed through the years, and the sixth edition clears away ancient baggage and passes onto readers the best practices in applying client-side scripts.

If you are new to JavaScript or use the book in your classroom, the updated tutorial teaches you the latest Worldwide Web Consortium Document Object Model (W3C DOM) techniques, preparing you to write scripts that work on today's and tomorrow's browsers. You get the same clear, example-filled explanations of all core JavaScript and object model features of modern browsers.

• Get up to speed fast on JavaScript basics with an updated tutorial tailored for newcomers

• Master JavaScript and DOM concepts with the exclusive interactive workbench, The Evaluator (and a cross-browser embeddable version for script debugging)

• Apply scripting to Web standards -- XHTML, DOM, CSS, and XML -- to produce future-compatible pages

• Implement cross-browser dynamic HTML applications for Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), Mozilla™-based browsers such as Firefox 2.0, Safari™, and other modern browsers

• Energize your content with custom objects, Ajax applications, and other client-side techniques

• Learn in depth from hundreds of fully scripted example HTML pages

• Detailed compatibility ratings for IE/WIndows, IE/Mac, Mozilla-based browsers, and Safari

• Foreword by JavaScript's creator, Brendan Eich

• Includes CD-ROM with:

  • 23 bonus chapters on advanced subjects, including Google Maps

  • searchable and printable electronic version of entire text

  • hundreds of ready-to-run scripted HTML pages