JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition

Acknowledgments

Brendan Eich of the Mozilla organization is the originator and chief innovator of JavaScript. I, and many JavaScript developers, owe Brendan a tremendous debt of gratitude for developing JavaScript and for taking the time out of his crazy schedule to answer our questions and even solicit our input. Besides patiently answering my many questions, Brendan also read and provided very helpful comments on the first and third editions of this book.

This book has been blessed with top-notch technical reviewers, whose comments have gone a long way toward making it a stronger, more accurate book. Waldemar Horwat at Netscape reviewed the new material on JavaScript 1.5 in this fourth edition. The new material on the W3C DOM was reviewed by Philippe Le Hegaret of the W3C; by Peter-Paul Koch, Head of Client-Side Programming at the Dutch Internet consultancy and creation company Netlinq Framfab (http://www.netlinqframfab.nl); by Dylan Schiemann of SitePen (http://www.sitepen.com); and by independent web developer Jeff Yates. Two of these reviewers maintain useful web sites about web design with the DOM. Peter-Paul’s site is at http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/. Jeff’s site is http://www.pbwizard.com. Although he was not a reviewer, Joseph Kesselman of IBM Research was very helpful in answering my questions about the W3C DOM.

The third edition of the book was reviewed by Brendan Eich, Waldemar Horwat, and Vidur Apparao at Netscape; Herman Venter at Microsoft; and two independent JavaScript ...