JavaScript® Bible, Sixth Edition

Appendix E. What's on the CD-ROM

The accompanying Windows-Macintosh CD-ROM contains additional chapters including many more JavaScript examples, an electronic version of the Quick Reference shown in Appendix A for printing, a complete, searchable version of the entire book, and the Adobe Reader.

System Requirements

To derive the most benefit from the example listings, you should have a Mozilla-based browser (for example, Firefox 1+, Netscape Navigator 7+, or Camino 1+) or Internet Explorer 6+ installed on your computer. Although many scripts run in these and other browsers, several scripts demonstrate features that are available on only a limited range of browsers. To write scripts, you can use a simple text editor, word processor, or dedicated HTML editor.

To use the Adobe Reader (version 7.0), you need the following:

• For Windows XP Pro/Home, or Windows XP Table PC Edition, you should be using a Pentium computer with 128 MB of RAM and 90 MB of hard disk space.

• Macintosh users require a PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor, OS X v10.2.8 or later, at least 128 MB of RAM, and 110 MB of disk space.

Disc Contents

When you view the contents of the CD-ROM, you will see files tailored for your operating system. The contents include the following items.

JavaScript listings for text editors

Starting with Part III of the book, almost all example listings are on the CD-ROM in the form of complete HTML files, which you can load into a browser to see the JavaScript item in operation. A directory called Listings ...