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 enlarge | Author: Jeremy Keith
Publisher: FRIENDS OF ED
Category: Book
List Price: £23.99
Buy New: £14.91
You Save: £9.08 (38%)
Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 25018
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 7.5 x 1
ISBN: 1590595335
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.72
EAN: 9781590595336
ASIN: 1590595335
Publication Date: September 1, 2005
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 It's ok but ... October 10, 2006
15 out of 24 found this review helpful
ADDENDUM:::BIG WARNING::: This book appears to be IE and Windows platform dependent. If you are interested in writing Javascript that is cross platform and cross browser compatible I suggest you look elsewhere. I don't seem to be able to dump the star rating I originally gave it but in this day and age ... writing a book that doesn't recognise that 15% of all users do NOT USE IE and Windows ... well ... need I say more.
I saw this book being recommended to someone else and thought I'd give it a go. I haven't read all of it yet but, having coded in Javascript heavily around 2000 it hasn't hugely taught me anything I couldn't have figured out. Guess it's saved me the blood sweat and tears of finding out the hard way though.
I think I would have preferred a reference book rather than this instructional book. I find it's a bit low-level for me but i can see it would be a good book for a non-programmer or someone just starting out.
 Great book September 20, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is not a cookbook. It will teach you DOM scripting. Not all examples are practical but they are excellent at showing you what DOM scripting can do and how to approach it. Really great beginners book
Superb book with great ideas June 14, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
How many sites have you visited which produce Javascript errors? Well "graceful degradation" shows how to eliminate this annoying problem. The book is jam packed with great tips and ideas even if it's an introduction to this area of programming. When you read the book his ideas are so obvious that you feel embarrassed that you didn't think of them before. In my defense I've avoided JavaScript like the plague mostly for accessibility reasons, and because it has a poor reputation. But now things have moved on and there's nothing to stop me including it for those who don't have JavaScript disabled. Unfortunately there are more and more Windows users disabling this language which had also been an incentive to not use it but now the problem is eased if not removed. Overall a great book!
 Not comprehensive but a good start May 4, 2006
10 out of 15 found this review helpful
If your a pro and already write front end code in your sleep, this book is a little heavy handed. Theres some decent insight and practices regarding dom scripting, but you'll pluck half a dozen pages from this and dispose of the rest. Better for those designers who find the code a tough concept, not really a tome for a good developer.
Worth a read February 14, 2006
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
I'm more a java programmer than a web designer. To be honest, the DOM scared me before reading this book. This book showed that there is nothing to be scared about. Easy read, good examples. I'd imagine there is a lot more to the DOM than is covered in this book, but either way, it's definitly worth a read.
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