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Summary: A Frustrating and Incomplete Reference
Review: There are many good features to this book. The reference material is excellent and if you know some programming, the book is reasonably well-written. The author has taken great effort to indicate what will work on various browsers and operating systems (but I cannot verify if this advice is always correct).This said, the book was very frustrating to use, especially if you are in a hurry to make a few reasonably simple web page modifications and are not interested in taking a JavaScripting course. I will not list everything, but the next two items were particularly vexing to me: 1. References were made in the text to the CD but the referenced material was sometimes not present.
2. Worse, some of the most important "applied" chapters -- all referenced in the text -- were not present. So, if you want to read in more detail about how to use JavaScript to check data on forms prior to submission to a server you need to go to Ch. XX. But guess what -- Ch XX is only found in the Gold Edition (there appears to be no way to get just the Chapters missing in JavaScript Bible 4th Ed). So, your copy, while not worthless, may not be what you wanted and you may need to repurchase what is essentially a hardbound version of the same book to get the missing examples. My advice -- don't touch this one unless you buy the "Gold Edition" and even then, only if you want what is more a reference and teaching book then a practical guide.
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Summary: good
Review: This book is great,coves probably everything there is to cover in javascript but...........if you have never doen anything like this before you should start out with something more siple first,although the book claims new people to web programming, the new people will have a hard time with it.
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Summary: Very good book
Review: This book took me from a beginner Javascripter to an advanced one. The things that nobody else spelt out clearly, he did in his tutorial section. The rest is a great reference. Clear and pretty comprehensive with loads of examples. Well worth taking the trouble to read.
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Summary: 4th Edition could have been put together much better.
Review: This is an overhaul of Goodmans JavaScript 3rd ed. IE5+, NN6 and W3C DOM browser topics are covered in detail with lots of practical examples. Unfortunately, you may need to use your CD to see a lot of them. One really big downside is that eight chapters are only on the CD. They are: Ch.19: Body Text Object, Ch.20: HTML Directive Object, Ch.27: Table and List Object, Ch.28: The Navigator & Other Environment Objects, Ch.31: Position Objects, Ch.32: Embedded Objects, Ch.33: XML Objects and Ch.38: The Regular Expression and RegExp Object. Three hundred pages in all! I guess the book was already getting thick at 1200 pages but what an inconvenience to have the other 300 on the computer. It's to bad a smaller font size and margin style wasn't used to get everything on paper. Another problem is the dismal coverage on scripting XML. What little there is works only in IE5+ with nothing written for NN6 or Mozilla. You'll need to surf the web to get at that information. Lastly, core JavaScript language concepts like scope, OOP programing topics, etc., get weak discussion and one would have to go to David Flanagans, "JavaScript the Definitive Guide" for helpful material. The JS Bible 4th ed. is basically cookbook in style but a good one for most of the material covered. It's worth getting and would compliment anyone's JavaScript library.
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Summary: Good for those that know a little scripting.
Review: This is not the manual to learn how to program in javascript. This is a great refrence for those that understand the use of scripts and know html. The way it is indexed accoding to different things you can use it for is great. If want to solve a problem, you can look in the index for it, and look up the page, and it will have a careful rundown of all the information you need to know. It then gives examples that are pretty helpful for practical applications.
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