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Summary: Worst Wrox, worst JavaScript, worst reference
Review: If you get anything useful out of Cliff Wootton's book, it will be out of sheer luck. I agree with the other reviewers who gave the book one star, it is the pits.
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Summary: This is not a Book. It's a JOKE!
Review: It's unbelievable, that WROX has published this book. As a matter of fact it would be unbelievable if any publisher printed this book. It's so worthless and unusable it's a shame. No more comments. This pile of paper is not worth even one second of my time. I'm lucky that I can still return it to the bookstore. It's like someone wrote all of the words of English language without any explanation in a book and called it a dictionary.
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Summary: Worthless.
Review: Like most Wrox buyers, I figured this book would be of excellent quality and value. I pretty much bought the book without even looking it over because I knew that it would be exactly what I needed. Guess again.I realize that it is a reference, but in my opinion a good reference book still gives some explanation of what an item is and how it's used. This book doesn't do much of anything. It simply spews a huge, redundant list of object properties and gives absolutely no indication of what they are for or how they are used. I actually bought this book when it first came out early this year. I tried to use it for a couple weeks and ended up throwing it on the shelf in disgust. What a waste of my time and money. I managed to get through the Javascript programming I had to do on my own. But now I am once again looking for a good Javascript reference book. This book showed up on my Amazon search list, and I couldn't wait to see what other reviewers were saying about it. I am happy to see that I am not the only one who is appalled that Wrox allowed this book to be published. I wish I could give it ZERO stars! Unfortunately, now I have to question and heavily scrutinize a Wrox book before I buy it, where before it was a slam-dunk. It's a shame that one bad purchase has changed my opinion to this degree. But this book is SO AWFUL, it's clear that Wrox is simply publishing anything that anyone will write for them -- with no QA whatsoever.
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Summary: Worthless.
Review: Like most Wrox buyers, I figured this book would be of excellent quality and value. I pretty much bought the book without even looking it over because I knew that it would be exactly what I needed. Guess again. I realize that it is a reference, but in my opinion a good reference book still gives some explanation of what an item is and how it's used. This book doesn't do much of anything. It simply spews a huge, redundant list of object properties and gives absolutely no indication of what they are for or how they are used. I actually bought this book when it first came out early this year. I tried to use it for a couple weeks and ended up throwing it on the shelf in disgust. What a waste of my time and money. I managed to get through the Javascript programming I had to do on my own. But now I am once again looking for a good Javascript reference book. This book showed up on my Amazon search list, and I couldn't wait to see what other reviewers were saying about it. I am happy to see that I am not the only one who is appalled that Wrox allowed this book to be published. I wish I could give it ZERO stars! Unfortunately, now I have to question and heavily scrutinize a Wrox book before I buy it, where before it was a slam-dunk. It's a shame that one bad purchase has changed my opinion to this degree. But this book is SO AWFUL, it's clear that Wrox is simply publishing anything that anyone will write for them -- with no QA whatsoever.
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Summary: The CD-ROM is handy
Review: Pleasantly surprised that this book contains a CD-ROM. What's amazing is that the disk contains not only the entire book but actually has more in it than the printed material. They say they would need to print two volumes to fit all the data in. I don't use the book anymore. Besides being (deliberately) incomplete finding items is quicker using the CD-ROM. The electronic version is styled as webpages strewn with hyperlinks (I didn't and don't even bother checking out the pdf version). If you have enough hard disk space copy the entire CD-ROM and use that copy instead. Accesing the reference is much faster that way. Create a shortcut on your desktop or on the Quick Launch bar or anywhere it's most convenient. Please note that this is not a beginner's book! Buy this only when you've gotten up to speed on JS programming. This is purely a dictionary-like reference for JS programmers. I myself bought it while my understanding of JS was at kindergarten stage. Needless to say 'reading' it then was a disappointing experience. My fault, not Wootton's. These days I refer to it every now and then to check on syntax and usage.
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Summary: Excellent Reference!
Review: This book definitely deserves 5 stars right now! Perhaps in 2-3 years it will appear dated as browsers and standards evolve. But for right now, this is _the_ Javascript/DOM reference to own. Wootton has seemingly gone to great lengths to compile a comprehensive reference, the likes of which I have yet to see in print or on the Web. As far as tutorials and most other forms of hand-holding go, you won't find any-it is a reference afterall. Cross-browser compatability is of critical importance for most of us when working with Javascript/DOM and that fact was not lost on Wootton. Most every topic has a table of supporting implementations. And while this feature is certainly not unique to only this book, it is up-to-date, covering IE 3.0-5.5, NS 3.0-6.0, Opera 3-5, Netscape Enterprise Server, the ECMAScript 3rd edition standard, and DOM 1-3. The format of the data is rather good as well, better than many of the Wrox books I have seen to date. What I liked best about the book is the CDROM that comes with it. It contains the full compilation of 3,500 topics (!!!) in HTML and Acrobat files, only half of which could find room in the book (the book is roughly 973 pages long already, if you doubled that you couldn't lift it ;-). They have a similar look-and-feel to Java API docs. A very handy tool for Web development teams!
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Summary: Useless Tome
Review: This book has almost no value (aside from a door stop). The information is incomplete, even for the time it was written. I applaud the effort of running scripts to ferret out "undocumented" information but even that information is presented in a useless fashion. Skip this book even when it is stacked high on the remainder pile.
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Summary: Useless Tome
Review: This book has almost no value (aside from a door stop). The information is incomplete, even for the time it was written. I applaud the effort of running scripts to ferret out "undocumented" information but even that information is presented in a useless fashion. Skip this book even when it is stacked high on the remainder pile.
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Summary: Very much useless
Review: This is alphabetically arrangement of unrelated concepts that only have in common that theyre are linked to JavaScript. This is pretty much useless if you are looking for an anwer to a meaningful question. It is only useful in the case where you know the class/method and are looking for the table "which browser does it support it". I definitely do not recommend it.
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