Mark Baartse Stuart Conway Jean-Luc David Sing Li Nigel McFarlane Sean B. Palmer Jon Stephens Margie Virdell Stephen Williams Paul Wilton Cliff Wootton Jeff Yates
JavaScript is the language of the Web. It has an intuitive, accessible nature and is available
with most modern browsers. JavaScript is used for making dynamic, interactive Web pages - from form
validation to creating games to dynamic menus - but its uses also go much further. Hardly a single
commercial Web page exists today that does not contain some JavaScript.
The second edition of Professional JavaScript provides comprehensive coverage of the JavaScript
language, its syntax and uses. It examines the latest Web browsers and Web standards, and moves on
to examine practical techniques in the form of short examples and more in-depth and complex case
studies. This book will focus entirely on the use of JavaScript within the Web browser, since this
is predominantly where it is used.
What does this book cover?
Core JavaScript programming
Scripting browser objects
Working with multimedia
Web standards, including XML, CSS, & W3C DOM
Dynamic HTML
Debugging techniques
Regular expressions and form validation
Real world case studies
The ECMAScript Edition 4 proposal
Who is this book for?
This book is for anyone who needs to use JavaScript for client-side Web development.
You may already be familiar with JavaScript, and need an up-to-date advanced guide, or have
experience in another programming language and need to pick up JavaScript as a new skill.
