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Summary: Awsome learning and reference book
Review: I used the 3rd edition of this book to teach myself the basics of java scripting, now since getting the latest it is my primary reference book for my programming needs. Wonderful and highly recommended.
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Summary: confused organization
Review: I would give this book a five star rating for its content if it were easier to locate what I want. Particularly vexing is that the author has placed some of the content only on the CD with listings page such as 'CD-281.' After months of looking I can not find the files designated as 'CD' on the CD.
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Summary: confused organization
Review: I would give this book a five star rating for its content if it were easier to locate what I want. Particularly vexing is that the author has placed some of the content only on the CD with listings page such as 'CD-281.' After months of looking I can not find the files designated as 'CD' on the CD.
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Summary: Good reference but hard to use...
Review: I'm more than half way through this book and must say that it is very complete in it's coverage. The writer clearly is coming from a Netscape background here with numerous references to Internet Explorer's short comings. He seems to tout NN6's great compliance with the W3C DOM but neglects to mention that NN4 is nearly worthless for scripting. In many of the examples the author clearly shows that certain features have been available since IE4 and only recently adopted in NN6. If you don't mind the the sometimes subtle pot shots at IE, the lack of any concrete examples in the book and the fact that you must reference the CD, which is in itself rather hard to "Navigate", and the fact that some chapters, the advanced ones but the ones that I really wanted to read, are only on the CD then I recommend that you buy this book. What I really wanted was an all-encompassing JavaScript reference book WITH examples. I stress the book part! I can't take my desktop with me and in order to get the full effect of the book you NEED to use the CD. I'd wait for the 5th edition of which I am sure will be coming shortly. Hopefully by then they will have realized their mistakes in making the CD mandatory.
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Summary: Best of breed ... BY FAR...not "...For Dummies"
Review: If you are a beginner, you should probably read a "...For Dummies" book or a "Learn Javascript in 24 hours" book. But if you want to get passed the basics, and need a good reference companion this book is for you. It seems many people who havce written bad reviews for this book note that "...they do not work" however I did not have problems. you have to realize Goodman is an advocate of Netscape (but I won't hold that against him),so many examples are based on Netscape browsers. (But they also signify that "It won't work for IE). If you go to his website, he has working examples there for both browsers, so don't complain about examples not working... I design websites for fortune 500 companies, and found this book invaluable. The index is very complete, and I can look up javascript functions,operators,and keyworks in no-time and find examples of use, and a full listing of all arugments, accessibility (whether you can get or set the values) and browser compatibility.(Much more complete than the Oreilly book) VERDICT: Great book, and a must have for serious programmers designing production quality websites. NOT for beginners
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Summary: Good book, but pages fall off !!!
Review: Obviously I haven't read the 1200 pages yet, but my two day review revealed the fact that this book could be quite resourceful. However, during my review, some of the pages started to fall off...? After some careful examination, I noticed that the book was put togather in a flimsy fashion; minimum glue and no other support. Well, that was the end for buying Hungry Minds books who are the publishers. Cheating on dismal amount of glue necessary for a book makes consumers like me very unhappy, especially if it's a technical book and you do a lot of "page referencing". I'll keep the book. But say bye-bye to Hungry Minds (Hungry Pockets?)
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Summary: Helpful for beginner
Review: The "Java Script Bible" is one of the few technical books that live up to its title. It starts with the author's view of Java Script's role in the Internet, some of the challenges of dealing with the different browsers, and writing your first Java Script. This section is followed by an extensive tutorial. The tutorial covers browsers and document objects, HTML Documents, programming variables, expressions, data type conversions, decisions structures and loops, functions, arrays and windows objects. No area is left uncovered from the DOM model to Cascading Style Sheets, to XML. The book ends with a detailed section on the core language reference. The book has examples of work-arounds for bugs, example scripts (most of which are also included on the enclosed CD-ROM). There are other excellent books available but none cover all the details of Java Script to the extent this book does. This is the most highly recommended book on Java Script that I have read to date - an absolute must on any Java Script programmer's bookshelf.
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Summary: If you want to know how to do it, it's here
Review: The "Java Script Bible" is one of the few technical books that live up to its title. It starts with the author's view of Java Script's role in the Internet, some of the challenges of dealing with the different browsers, and writing your first Java Script. This section is followed by an extensive tutorial. The tutorial covers browsers and document objects, HTML Documents, programming variables, expressions, data type conversions, decisions structures and loops, functions, arrays and windows objects. No area is left uncovered from the DOM model to Cascading Style Sheets, to XML. The book ends with a detailed section on the core language reference. The book has examples of work-arounds for bugs, example scripts (most of which are also included on the enclosed CD-ROM). There are other excellent books available but none cover all the details of Java Script to the extent this book does. This is the most highly recommended book on Java Script that I have read to date - an absolute must on any Java Script programmer's bookshelf.
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Summary: not as well put together as the 3rd edition
Review: The 3rd edition of this book saved my life more times then I can count. This version constantly refers you to the cd with arcane directions (what is cd-143?) and leaves you hanging. Good info, but bloody hard to find it.
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Summary: The best JavaScript book on the market
Review: The best JavaScript book on the market, now also covering IE5+, NN6 and W3C DOM browser topics are covered in detail.
There is a lot of content here, almost too much and it may even be hard to find. I think Goodman reached the point where splitting everything into two different books could make more sense. One nasty downside is that eight chapters are available only from the CD
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