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 >