The Book of Javascript, 2nd Edition: A Practical Guide to Interactive Web Pages

By Thau!

Book Overview

JavaScript makes it easy to add interactivity, animation, and other tricks to your web pages. But this isn't just a book of JavaScripts for you to cut and paste into your HTML, only to find out that nothing works as you'd expected. Using real-world examples as the starting point, author thau! walks you step-by-step through various scripts and explains how they produce the effects you want. Because no discussion of JavaScript today is complete without coverage of Ajax Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), this thoroughly updated second edition includes new chapters on Ajax to get you up to speed with this valuable method for creating truly dynamic web pages. You'll also find revised appendices and new examples that reflect today's web environment. Learn to: Work with frames, forms, cookies, and alarms Use events to react to a user's actions Perform image swaps and rollovers Program your own functions to produce customized solutions Store user preferences and build a shopping cart

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593271069
• ISBN13: 9781593271060
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Length: 490 Pages
• Weight: 2.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Implementation details

When I had to create my first data model for an entire system, I instructed myself with this book and "Data Modeling For Information Professionals" by Bob Schmidt. Schmidt's book provided the theory, and this book provided the implementation rules and guidelines. I think the attribute rules probably helped me the most. The hierarchy rules, which were written in a way that I could relate to from an object-oriented perspective,...

Excellent book!

This book is excellent. The subject matter is advanced but still easy to read and understand. The examples used in the book are varied and excellent illustrations of the problems discussed in the book. Many of the examples remind me of similar data modeling errors I have seen in my experience and give excellent methods of correcting the mistakes. I highly reccomend this book for the data modeler who is ready to go to the...

Easy to understand

I have many books on data modeling but this one is probably the most understandable. The examples are well-formed and many diagrams are provided along with written explanations. They do an excellent job of going through 5th normal form and show how to resolve many different issues such as special cases in generalization hierarchies. I have found this book very useful in practice and it has served me well.

Excellent resource for any data modeller

This book is really a "no-nonsense guide" for data modeller. However the diagram conventions are significantly different than found on some of the popular CASE tools. But overall I keep refering to this book.

Improving your Models

This book is not a database book, nor does it try to be that. For anyone who understands the role of logical data modelling, this book will prove to be a valuable addition to your professional bookshelf. It is filled with detailed examples of good & bad models, along with analyses that list the pros & cons of each approach. I'd recommend this to any intelligent professional who is moving into the data architect role,...