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JavaScript
Pro Javascript Techniques
Jan 20th
The first chapter gives a broad overview of the major topics the book will cover: object-orientated programming, testing, DOM scripting, event handling, CSS, Ajax and browser support. The second chapter starts right into object orientated programming, covering the major features of JavaScript in this area.
In Created Reusable code (chapter three) the book looks at way of simulating inheritance, namespaces and other features found in other OO-languages, but not found natively in JavaScript. They also introduces the Prototype, Dojo and Yahoo!’s YUI libraries. Finally the chapter covers compressing your code with JSMin and Packer, then ends off with JSAN (the JavaScript More >
Ajax for Web Application Developers
Dec 5th
The book starts off with some examples and quickly moves through XML and JSON to get you up to speed. Chapter 5 covers object orientated Javascript. The speed is good, if you know a bit of Javascript and have a familiarity with object orientated languages, this is quite straightforward. If not, it’s a good introduction to Javascript’s OO features.
Chapter 8 gets into debugging scripts with the web browser. It shows the tools available for Internet Explorer, Safari and an extended look at the Firebug extension for Mozilla Firefox. Oddly, for Firefox, there is no mention of the Venkman Javascript debugger, More >
