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Summary: Another must-have reference
Review: Before reading this book, the book "Javascript-The Definite Guide" by David Flanagan is a must-have reference for every Javascript programmer. This book became my second "must-have" reference. The reason why this book is worth the money is that the examples inside the book are very much helpful to understand the Javascript in a deeper level. Too bad that Wrox has a traditionally lousy publishing format, and it caused reading uncomfortably. This book is no exceptional and that's why the "definite guide" is still No. 1. Wrox should not neglect this anymore.
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Summary: I cannot believe wrox put this out
Review: I cannot belive this is a Wrox book. All it lists property methods and events. There is hardly any explaination on how to use them, very little examples, and little on what they do. This book makes me think twice about buying a Wrox book and I usually go to them first. The only thing this book is good for is for giving you clues as to what to search for on the internet when you have a problem or a question. Don't waste your time or money.
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Summary: Don't waste your money
Review: I don't know how I bought this book. At first glace of the book title, it seems very useful. I mean we all need quick indexed JavaScript reference. This book gives reference but not detailed reference. This just lists all properties and methods. Many times, it doesn't tell you how to use it. Usually, other books have small codes to show how to use them. This is almost like getting a W3 reference that's available for free for cost. Unreal! I will not buy book from Cliff Wootton, again. Further more, i will be more cautious about buying WROX book. Lately, their books haven't been very good. Either my programming skill gotten better where I no longer can read the level of their books or their books gotten worse, which I concured with the latter. Any other JavaScript book is better than Cliff Wootton's book. I can write JavaScript book better than this guy. Anyone who programmed JavaScript can write book better than this guy. You can download free W3 or free JavaScript reference from Microsoft, it's better than this book. You can go to free website, it's still better than this book. After my fraustration of this book, I've got "O'Reilly's JavaScript-The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan..." I highly recommend O'Reilly's book. Mr. Cliff Wootton, go back and rewrite your reference book. Why? Because you haven't provided anything more than what people can get for free. In fact, even if yours is for free, it still wouldn't be worth money because i think there are other javascript reference book that's not 1000 pages long. Look at the David Flanagan's book. It gives tutorial, in case a programmer has forgotten something, client reference, javascript core reference, DOM reference, still less pages than yours...
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Summary: Don't waste your money
Review: I don't know how I bought this book. At first glace of the book title, it seems very useful. I mean we all need quick indexed JavaScript reference. This book gives reference but not detailed reference. This just lists all properties and methods. Many times, it doesn't tell you how to use it. Usually, other books have small codes to show how to use them. This is almost like getting a W3 reference that's available for free for cost. Unreal! I will not buy book from Cliff Wootton, again. Further more, i will be more cautious about buying WROX book. Lately, their books haven't been very good. Either my programming skill gotten better where I no longer can read the level of their books or their books gotten worse, which I concured with the latter. Any other JavaScript book is better than Cliff Wootton's book. I can write JavaScript book better than this guy. Anyone who programmed JavaScript can write book better than this guy. You can download free W3 or free JavaScript reference from Microsoft, it's better than this book. You can go to free website, it's still better than this book. After my fraustration of this book, I've got "O'Reilly's JavaScript-The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan..." I highly recommend O'Reilly's book. Mr. Cliff Wootton, go back and rewrite your reference book. Why? Because you haven't provided anything more than what people can get for free. In fact, even if yours is for free, it still wouldn't be worth money because i think there are other javascript reference book that's not 1000 pages long. Look at the David Flanagan's book. It gives tutorial, in case a programmer has forgotten something, client reference, javascript core reference, DOM reference, still less pages than yours...
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Summary: Confusing Title
Review: I found the title of this book completely misleading -- I would never refer to this book as to "Programmer's Reference". It is more like JavaScript language history overview. If one wants to know about the history of JavaScipt or what the difference between some implementations is -- it may be right book for that purpose. But if one need to have the language reference that is easy to navigate and which contains the details important for programmers, like method arguments description and what that method does -- then this book may be a disappointment.
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Summary: Decent reference that lacks detail and examples
Review: I like to call this book enhanced "intellisense", for those of you familiar with Microsoft development environments. It basically is a listing of objects and all of their methods and properties on different browsers. But it offers little detail such as examples. It will give you a "WARNING" about a particular method, but often doesn't tell you what you're being warned about. If you already know how to use a javascript method but are just curious about which browsers support it, this book is helpful. Otherwise, you should purchase "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide" by Flanagan. I can't wait until Flanagan comes up with a fourth edition because the latest one is getting outdated, but it is by far the best JavaScript book. JavaScript Programmer's Reference is just not worth the money. Most of the information it provides is available via help files, and the book does not provide an useful index, but instead lumps everything into alphabetical order. Very disappointing.
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Summary: Decent reference that lacks detail and examples
Review: I like to call this book enhanced "intellisense", for those of you familiar with Microsoft development environments. It basically is a listing of objects and all of their methods and properties on different browsers. But it offers little detail such as examples. It will give you a "WARNING" about a particular method, but often doesn't tell you what you're being warned about. If you already know how to use a javascript method but are just curious about which browsers support it, this book is helpful. Otherwise, you should purchase "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide" by Flanagan. I can't wait until Flanagan comes up with a fourth edition because the latest one is getting outdated, but it is by far the best JavaScript book. JavaScript Programmer's Reference is just not worth the money. Most of the information it provides is available via help files, and the book does not provide an useful index, but instead lumps everything into alphabetical order. Very disappointing.
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Summary: Nice dictionary, useless reference
Review: I understand that this is supposed to be a reference book and not a tutorial, but even reference books usually provide some context to their information. Wooten's book is simply an alphabetical listing of many JavaScript elements (though far from complete in even that). I can't imagine that some one wanting to learn about the window open property and the window close property would want to go look under O for Open and then C for Close. Most reference books prefer to give their information in context. That is, you probably want to go to the window chapter and read about all of its properties in that context. I RARELY want to look up a JavaScript feature based on its alphabetical ordering, and if I do, I use a thing called an INDEX. I can't imagine that a programmer could make much use of this book.
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Summary: Organization Is Horrible; No Index....
Review: I was thinking about buying this book and read through it at a bookstore....I was completely confused. It did seem like a great reference book on JS but everything is organized by alpha and THERE IS NOW INDEX!!!! It's just a cross reference which I found completely confusing and illogical. Sorry Cliff.
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Summary: Positve comments
Review: I'll agree that this isn't the best book on the subject, but... It offers experieced web developers the ability to quickly look up a Javascript feature and determine what browsers support it.
If you deal with browser compatibiliy issues on a regular bases this is the right book for you. However, if you looking for detailed explaination of JavaScript features get O'Reilly "Def. Guide" -Peter
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