JavaScript The Complete Reference

The new edition of this bestseller covers the latest features in JavaScript and details its uses in Ajax and HTML5-based Web applications.

The essential JavaScript resource-fully updated Design, debug, and publish high-performance web pages and applications using tested techniques and best practices from expert developers. The all-new edition of this comprehensive guide has been thoroughly revised and expanded to cover the latest JavaScript features, tools, and programming methods. JavaScript: The Complete Reference, Third Edition provides illustrative examples, line-by-line code samples, and practical development advice-from the core of the language to the various standard and emerging APIs supported by modern web browsers. This in-depth resource covers everything you need to know, whether you're trying to understand the fundamentals of weak typing in JavaScript, reduce your confusion over closures, or perform common tasks like form validation or Ajax calls. Explore core JavaScript syntax and data types Investigate often confusing concepts such as weak typing and closures Use object-oriented programming the JavaScript way See what changes come from ECMAScript 5 Perform dynamic content updates using DOM methods Handle user-generated events with modern event models Modernize form handling with HTML5 and JavaScript Use the XMLHttpRequest object to create Ajax applications Control animation and multimedia content with JavaScript Generate bitmap graphics with the Canvas API Learn methods to handle the challenges of cross-browser coding Discover defensive development and error handling

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Thomas Powell is the founder and principal of Powell Internet Consulting, Inc. a San Diego-based web design firm that specializes in Web research and development and site construction for high-tech companies. He developed the Web Design Certificate Program at UCSD, teaches web publishing classes and serves as senior instructor and faculty advisor in the University's Information Technology Program. He holds a Bachelor of Science from UCLA and a Master's degree in Computer Science from UCSD. Powell is the author of three books: HTML: The Complete Reference and HTML Programmer's Reference for Osborne and Web Site Engineering: Beyond Web Page Design for Prentice Hall.

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The essential JavaScript resource-fully updated

Design, debug, and publish high-performance web pages and applications using tested techniques and best practices from expert developers. The all-new edition of this comprehensive guide has been thoroughly revised and expanded to cover the latest JavaScript features, tools, and programming methods.

JavaScript: The Complete Reference, Third Edition provides illustrative examples, line-by-line code samples, and practical development advice-from the core of the language to the various standard and emerging APIs supported by modern web browsers. This in-depth resource covers everything you need to know, whether you're trying to understand the fundamentals of weak typing in JavaScript, reduce your confusion over closures, or perform common tasks like form validation or Ajax calls.

• Explore core JavaScript syntax and data types
• Investigate often confusing concepts such as weak typing and closures
• Use object-oriented programming the JavaScript way
• See what changes come from ECMAScript 5
• Perform dynamic content updates using DOM methods
• Handle user-generated events with modern event models
• Modernize form handling with HTML5 and JavaScript
• Use the XMLHttpRequest object to create Ajax applications
• Control animation and multimedia content with JavaScript
• Generate bitmap graphics with the Canvas API
• Learn methods to handle the challenges of cross-browser coding
• Discover defensive development and error handling

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Chapter 1. Introduction to JavaScript; Chapter 2. JavaScript Core Features; Chapter 3. Data Types & Variables; Chapter 4. Operators, Expressions & Statements; Chapter 5. Functions; Chapter 6. Objects; Chapter 7. Array, Date, Math; Chapter 8. Regular Expressions; Chapter 9. JavaScript Object Models; Chapter 10. The Standard DOM; Chapter 11. Event Handling; Chapter 12. Cnt. Windows & Frames; Chapter 13. Handling Documents; Chapter 14. Form Handling; Chapter 15. DHTML and Beyond; Chapter 16. Canvas; Chapter 17. JavaScript UIs; Chapter 18. Browser Detection; Chapter 19. Cookies & Persistence; Chapter 20. JS & Embedded Objects; Chapter 21. Ajax and Remote JS; Chapter 22. JavaScript and XML; Chapter 23. Browser Specific JS; Chapter 24. JavaScript Security; Chapter 25. JavaScript Practices