JavaScript for the World Wide Web, Fifth Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide)
by: Tom Negrino, Dori Smith
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Amazon.com Review:
JavaScript is great, but at best it is a complementarylanguage for Web development. JavaScript for the World Wide Weboffers a productive, how-to style that lets you solve a problem orpick up a trick and then move on with the rest of your work.
Consistent with other members of Peachpit's Visual QuickStart Guideseries, this title makes wise use of side-by-side explanations andscreen shots, as well as code snippets and their analysis. Thisapproach gives readers the feeling that the authors are sitting bytheir side and showing them how to code scripts. Most subjects arehandled with numbered steps, such as "Validating Zip Codes," anduseful tips punctuate the text.
The book introduces the wholeconcept of JavaScript in a fast-moving but readable chapter and thenmoves into solving real-world challenges. The authors do a good job ofcovering JavaScript's capabilities, from eye-catching graphics tricksto data-entry form processing and cookie management. Particularlyenjoyable is the way the book spells out many of the differencesbetween Netscape and Microsoft dynamic HTML approaches.
TheJavaScript object model is laid out in an appendix, along with objectcompatibility between various browser flavors. To complement the book,the publisher offers a Web site that makes all of the example codeeasily downloadable for your use. This is a great little guide forboth busy coders and JavaScript novices. --Stephen W. Plain
Product Description:
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.
JavaScript is great, but at best it is a complementarylanguage for Web development. JavaScript for the World Wide Weboffers a productive, how-to style that lets you solve a problem orpick up a trick and then move on with the rest of your work.
Consistent with other members of Peachpit's Visual QuickStart Guideseries, this title makes wise use of side-by-side explanations andscreen shots, as well as code snippets and their analysis. Thisapproach gives readers the feeling that the authors are sitting bytheir side and showing them how to code scripts. Most subjects arehandled with numbered steps, such as "Validating Zip Codes," anduseful tips punctuate the text.
The book introduces the wholeconcept of JavaScript in a fast-moving but readable chapter and thenmoves into solving real-world challenges. The authors do a good job ofcovering JavaScript's capabilities, from eye-catching graphics tricksto data-entry form processing and cookie management. Particularlyenjoyable is the way the book spells out many of the differencesbetween Netscape and Microsoft dynamic HTML approaches.
TheJavaScript object model is laid out in an appendix, along with objectcompatibility between various browser flavors. To complement the book,the publisher offers a Web site that makes all of the example codeeasily downloadable for your use. This is a great little guide forboth busy coders and JavaScript novices. --Stephen W. Plain
Product Description:
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.
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- Uses examples to explain how JavaScript works
Has examples with side bar notes on what each line does. Typical of this publishers other guides, but works really easy with JavaScript samples. Good and informative introduction of JavaScript and its applications in the real world. Reviewed 5th edition and 5th ed. Student Edition, student edition was nice because of the review sections, but basically the same book.
Rating: 
- Good Quick Start
This book is as the cover states;"Visual QuickStart Guide....pictures rather than lengthy explanations."It was a great help in getting started with JavaScript.It is not an in-depth tutorial, but then, it doesn't claim to be.
I liked it.
Bo
Rating: 
- do not even think about buying it
It's downloads don't work, and the book requires that they be used.
the examples will not run as written in the book.
They do not conform to the w3schools standards.
it cannot be used outside Microsoft products.
Like Firefox.
Rating: 
- Excellent Material
This book was well packaged for delivery. I like it for the clarity with which the authors present the various lessons.
I hope to derive a lot from it and to add to my skills.
I am still going through it and so far it has been very exciting. Thank you for the good business. A value for the money.
Rating: - Useful
This is useful as a reference book or to learn JavaScript.I do not use it often, but when I need it I am very glad to have it on my shelf.Good examples.
- Uses examples to explain how JavaScript worksHas examples with side bar notes on what each line does. Typical of this publishers other guides, but works really easy with JavaScript samples. Good and informative introduction of JavaScript and its applications in the real world. Reviewed 5th edition and 5th ed. Student Edition, student edition was nice because of the review sections, but basically the same book.
- Good Quick StartThis book is as the cover states;"Visual QuickStart Guide....pictures rather than lengthy explanations."It was a great help in getting started with JavaScript.It is not an in-depth tutorial, but then, it doesn't claim to be.
I liked it.
Bo
- do not even think about buying itIt's downloads don't work, and the book requires that they be used.
the examples will not run as written in the book.
They do not conform to the w3schools standards.
it cannot be used outside Microsoft products.
Like Firefox.
- Excellent MaterialThis book was well packaged for delivery. I like it for the clarity with which the authors present the various lessons.
I hope to derive a lot from it and to add to my skills.
I am still going through it and so far it has been very exciting. Thank you for the good business. A value for the money.
- UsefulThis is useful as a reference book or to learn JavaScript.I do not use it often, but when I need it I am very glad to have it on my shelf.Good examples.
