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Scriptin' with JavaScript and Ajax: A Designer's Guide
- By Charles Wyke-Smith
- Published Aug 17, 2009 by New Riders. Part of the Voices That Matter series.
- Copyright 2010
- Dimensions: 7-1/2 X 9-1/8
- Pages: 312
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-57260-2
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-57260-8
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- ISBN-10: 0-321-67854-0
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-67854-6
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JavaScript is the brains of your Web page—it enables you to modify a document’s structure, styling, and content in response to user actions without requesting new pages from the server. Scriptin' with JavaScript and Ajax teaches you how to master this powerful and elegant language so you can develop intuitive user interactions that take the user experience to new levels of sophistication and responsiveness.
Today’s application-like Web experiences (such as Salesforce.com and Google Maps) and Web 2.0 sites (such as Flickr.com and Twitter) are powered by JavaScript and Ajax. Using the techniques shown in this book, you will be able to start creating similar experiences in the sites you design.
Scriptin' with JavaScript and Ajax will teach you how to:
- Start developing with JavaScript fast!
- Write lightweight but powerful object-oriented code
- Modify the Document Object Model
- “Progressively enhance” your pages with JavaScript to provide the highest levels of accessibility to all users
- Learn sophisticated techniques for making your pages respond to user actions
- Use the downloadable Scriptin’ library of helper functions to speed development and ensure cross-browser compatibility
- Use Ajax scripting techniques to update specific areas of the page with data from the server
- Create powerful interface interactions, such as sliding panels and tree menus
- Evaluate frameworks such as jQuery and Prototype to find the best one for your needs
- Build an online application that looks and responds like a regular desktop application
- Easily adapt the Scriptin’ code examples for use in your own projects—download them at www.scriptinwithajax.com
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Some good content, brought down by loads of errors., By JonG (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scriptin' with JavaScript and Ajax: A Designer's Guide (Voices That Matter) (Paperback)
I'm an experienced programmer, but fairly new to JavaScript.I liked how the book didn't get stuck on the basics and jumped quickly into real examples of applying JavaScript to enhance a website. However, as more code appeared on the pages, so did a lot more mistakes. A number of these seemed to be the result of going through several revisions and not updating all references to the code being discussed, but many were pretty inexcusable such as: - Glaring syntax errors - Inconsistent names / referencing functions or objects that don't exist - Incomplete / non-functional code in places I was able to get something out of this book and didn't get stumped by many of these mistakes (although there were certainly some WTF moments), but I kept imagining a poor novice programmer getting totally confused by parts of the text. There were also some bad practices demonstrated in places. The number of errors is severe enough that I wouldn't... Read more
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Great Book for New and Seasoned Web Designers Alike, By
This review is from: Scriptin' with JavaScript and Ajax: A Designer's Guide (Voices That Matter) (Paperback)
Scriptin' with JavaScript and Ajax is written by Charles Wyke-Smith who is also the author of Stylin' with CSS which is one of the best CSS books I've read. This is a great book for new and seasoned web designers alike. He does a great job of explaining the basic programming fundamentals of JavaScript so that even a newbie can grasp the concepts of JavaScript and similar programming languages.There are only seven well thought out chapters that present the concepts of JavaScript in easily digestible chunks with a logical flow. You will learn about the rise of JavaScript, the basics, objects and the DOM, events, Ajax, and the major JavaScript frameworks that make the language fun and easy to learn. Before you are through, Charles presents instructions for creating two simple JS powered web applications. Charles discusses JavaScript's rise to popularity on the web and the fact that it's the only programming language that runs in the browser. He covers accessibility... Read more
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
How could I be so grossly wrong, By
This review is from: Scriptin' with JavaScript and Ajax: A Designer's Guide (Voices That Matter) (Paperback)
After reading thru chapter 5, I wonder how I made such a poor choice. I saw the 4+ rating but failed to notice it comes from a statistically insignificant 8 reviews.Here are my gripes about this book -Even though the title or the introduction doesn't say it, the book uses PHP backend. So, if your backend is Google Apps/CGI/ASP.NET, you will just have to run thru the PHP code uncomfortably and just get over it. Though it is not a real impediment, since this is a frontend programming book, author could have been neatly abstracted a technology specific backend. -After reading thru couple of chapters, I had this feeling that author is fairly knowledgeable about the topic but is too impatient to put his thoughts down. Most of us had a teacher like this at school, didn't we? A good researcher, but a bad teacher. At times, he doesn't spend enough time where it counts. -This impatience and lack of detail reaches new heights with JS objects & DOM,... Read more |
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 JavaScript comes of age
Chapter 2 JavaScript Basics
Chapter 3 Objects and the DOM
Chapter 4 Events
Chapter 5 Real World JavaScript
Chapter 6 AJAX
Chapter 7 Frameworks
Appendix A
Appendix B
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