Network Programming, Scripting Languages, Web Programming

JavaScript Bible

Name: JavaScript Bible
Author: Danny Goodman
ISBN: 9780470952801

by Danny Goodman, Michael Morrison, Paul Novitski, Tia Gustaff Rayl

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Overview

This book will cover the new powerful functionality JavaScript will gain with the release of fifth generation revisions of Internet Esxplorer and Netscape Communicator. The Gold Bible, will feature essential new JavaScript information, additional ready-to-use JavaScript applications and scores of additional JavaScript and Web page routines. This book will bring programmmers and non-technical professionals, including casual programmmers and scripters, painlessly up to speed on all aspects of mastering JavaScript. Key topics include programming fundamentals, JavaScript language elements and how to use them effectively, plus how to easily and efficiently add powerful new functionality to HTML documents and Java applets.

About the Author, Danny Goodman

Danny Goodman has been an active participant on the editorial side of the personal computer and consumer electronics revolutions since the late 1970s. His articles in the field have appeared in some of the most prestigious general audience publications and he has written dozens of feature articles for leading computer publications, such as PC Magazine, PC World, Macworld, and MacUser. He is currently a monthly columnist for Netscape Communication's online developer newsletter, View Source.

Danny is also the author of more than two dozen books on computing and information superhighway technologies. The Complete HyperCard Handbook, published by Bantam Books in August 1987, claimed honors as the bestselling Macintosh book and fastest selling computer book in the history of the industry. That book is now in its fourth edition and has been translated into more than a half-dozen languages. His HyperCard Handbook and HyperCard Developer's Guide have both received Best Product-Specific Book awards from the Computer Press Association (1987 and 1988, respectively). Danny Goodman's Macintosh Handbook (1993), a radical departure from traditional computer books, won Danny's third CPA award.

To keep up to date on the needs of World Wide Web developers for his recent books and Netscape articles, Danny is also a programming and design consultant to some of the industry's top intranet application development groups.

Danny, 47, was born in Chicago, Illinois. He earned a B.A. and M.A. in classical antiquity from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He moved to California in 1983 and now lives in a small San Francisco area coastal community, where he alternates views between computer screens and the Pacific Ocean.

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The author covers the basics of document objects and forms, control structures, functions, operators, Java applets, the differences between Netscape and Microsoft's implementations of JavaScript, cross- browser dynamic HTML applications, and debugging tools. Includes beginning and advanced tutorials, and appends answers to the tutorial exercises as well as a list of JavaScript Internet resources. The CD- ROM contains the complete JavaScript for the examples in the book and seven additional chapters with working applications, including calendars, forms, graphics, intelligent flags, and a decision helper. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.