Book Description
* This new edition of the definitive guide to JavaScript has been revamped to cover the latest browsers, language updates, extensions, and JavaScript standards
* Part tutorial and part reference, the book serves as a learning tool for building new JavaScript skills and a detailed reference for seasoned JavaScript developers
* Danny Goodman's exclusive interactive workbench, The Evaluator, makes it easy to master JavaScript and DOM concepts
* Offers deployment strategies that best suit the user's content goals and target audience
* Bonus CD-ROM is packed with advanced content for the reader who wants to go an extra step


Book Info
Presents how to master JavaScript and DOM concepts with The Evaluator, and exclusive interactive workbench, how to capture your target audience with Web sites featuring creative effects and instant interactivity, and how to optimize your scripts for effective presentation on the newest browser versions. Softcover.


From the Back Cover
If JavaScript can do it, you can do it too... Create Web pages brimming with dynamic content. Engage your site visitors with programmed style sheets that respond instantly to user interaction. Take charge of your user interface by controlling CSS, plug-ins, Java™ applets, and even XML data. Premier JavaScript authority Danny Goodman teams up with developer/inventor Michael Morrison to help you bring your pages to life, whether you’re a beginner or a JavaScript pro. You’ll find what you need in this extensively revised edition – an updated, standards-intensive tutorial for newcomers, and plenty of advanced detail for veterans. Inside, you’ll find complete coverage of JavaScript Get up to speed fast on JavaScript basics with an updated tutorial tailored for newcomers Master JavaScript and DOM concepts with Danny Goodman’s exclusive interactive workbench, The Evaluator Apply scripting to Web standards – XHTML, DOM, CSS, and XML – to produce future-compatible pages Implement cross-browser dynamic HTML applications for MSIE 6, Mozilla™, Safari™, and other browsers Energize your content with custom objects, XML data, and other client-side techniques Learn in depth from hundreds of fully scripted example HTML pages Bonus CD-ROM includes Full, searchable PDF version of the book 22 bonus chapters covering advanced DOM, XML, and JavaScript objects; dynamic HTML, data validation, plug-ins, and security; techniques for developing and debugging professional Web-based applications, and more Nine complete JavaScript real-world applications Over 300 ready-to-run HTML documents demonstrating most of the Document Object Model and JavaScript terms in the book


About the Author
Danny Goodman is the author of numerous critically acclaimed and best-selling books, including The Complete HyperCard Handbook, Danny Goodman’s AppleScript Handbook, Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, and JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook. He is a renowned authority and expert teacher of computer scripting languages. His writing style and pedagogy continue to earn praise from readers and teachers around the world. To help keep his finger on the pulse of real-world programming challenges, Goodman frequently lends his touch as consulting programmer and designer to leading-edge World Wide Web and intranet sites from his home base in the San Francisco area.

Michael Morrison is a writer, developer, toy inventor, and author of a variety of books covering topics such as Java, Web scripting, game development, ActiveX, and Pocket PCs. Some of Michael’s notable writing projects include Faster Smarter HTML and XML, Teach Yourself XML in 24 Hours, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Java 2. Michael is also the founder of Stalefish Labs (www.stalefishlabs.com), an entertainment company specializing in traditional games and toys.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

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.

SYNOPSIS

If JavaScript can do it, you can do it too...

Create Web pages brimming with dynamic content. Engage your site visitors with programmed style sheets that respond instantly to user interaction. Take charge of your user interface by controlling CSS, plug-ins, Java™ applets, and even XML data. Premier JavaScript authority Danny Goodman teams up with developer/inventor Michael Morrison to help you bring your pages to life, whether you’re a beginner or a JavaScript pro. You’ll find what you need in this extensively revised edition -- an updated, standards-intensive tutorial for newcomers, and plenty of advanced detail for veterans.

Inside, you’ll find complete coverage of JavaScript Get up to speed fast on JavaScript basics with an updated tutorial tailored for newcomers Master JavaScript and DOM concepts with Danny Goodman’s exclusive interactive workbench, The Evaluator Apply scripting to Web standards -- XHTML, DOM, CSS, and XML -- to produce future-compatible pages Implement cross-browser dynamic HTML applications for MSIE 6, Mozilla™, Safari™, and other browsers Energize your content with custom objects, XML data, and other client-side techniques Learn in depth from hundreds of fully scripted example HTML pages

Bonus CD-ROM includes Full, searchable PDF version of the book 22 bonus chapters covering advanced DOM, XML, and JavaScript objects; dynamic HTML, data validation, plug-ins, and security; techniques for developing and debugging professional Web-based applications, and more Nine complete JavaScript real-world applications Over 300 ready-to-run HTML documents demonstrating most of the Document Object Model and JavaScript terms in the book

FROM THE CRITICS

Booknews

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.

AUTHOR DESCRIPTION

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.