JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

Additional JavaScript: The Definitive Guide Information

This Fifth Edition is completely revised and expanded to cover JavaScript as it is used in today's Web 2.0 applications. This book is both an example-driven programmer's guide and a keep-on-your-desk reference, with new chapters that explain everything you need to know to get the most out of JavaScript, including:

Part I explains the core JavaScript language in detail. If you are new to JavaScript, it will teach you the language. If you are already a JavaScript programmer, Part I will sharpen your skills and deepen your understanding of the language.

Part II explains the scripting environment provided by web browsers, with a focus on DOM scripting with unobtrusive JavaScript. The broad and deep coverage of client-side JavaScript is illustrated with many sophisticated examples that demonstrate how to:

Part III is a complete reference for core JavaScript. It documents every class, object, constructor, method, function, property, and constant defined by JavaScript 1.5 and ECMAScript Version 3.

Part IV is a reference for client-side JavaScript, covering legacy web browser APIs, the standard Level 2 DOM API, and emerging standards such as the XMLHttpRequest object and the canvas tag.

More than 300,000 JavaScript programmers around the world have made this their indispensable reference book for building JavaScript applications.

"A must-have reference for expert JavaScript programmers...well-organized and detailed."
-- Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript

What Customers Say About JavaScript: The Definitive Guide:

It is clueless. UGH. I now have a five line program that just plain doesn't work. I finally got the function to recognize a 'hello world' program both written in the file and in an external file.

I am an experienced programmer, well versed in languages I have learned from O'Reilly books. So am I. So I looked up 'debugging' in the 'DEFINITIVE' guide. I read this book cover to cover a couple of years ago.

I had to go to the web for a simple tutorial to do this. I have never, ever had this much trouble picking up a new language from a book.I have to give this book a rating of 1. It certainly is thorough.I have just spent six hours trying to hook in a simple javascript function to my php application. I swear some of the coding examples in the book are just plain wrong.

i recommend it to anybody that wants to learn JavaScript from the basics and on.

However the person who received it was very happy with the book. Because I purchased this book as a gift I cannot review it personally.

I don't know where the problem is. I got the wrong edition. Be careful when selecting books from the "Used and New" section It took me about two months to get my refund. I searched for fifth edition and picked the book from "Used and New" section. It was a wrong edition there.

I could scarcely be happier with this book than I am.(This review concerns the new 5th edition). There are very very few typos (I spotted a couple in the first 150 pages), and the author explains everything very very clearly. I have to agree with the bulk of the reviews that I've read about this book: it IS the DEFINITIVE guide to Javascript. I'm just learning Javascript, and I bought another book that was an overly gentle introduction to Javascript (since I've been programming for quite some time), and after I went through that one and another one, I finally bought this one, and I half expected that it would be a little bit hard to chew at this point in my Javascript learning curve: not so.