August 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1018 pages
34h 13m
English
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Preface
After the fourth edition of JavaScript: The Definitive Guide was published, the Document Object Model—the fundamental API for client-side JavaScript™ programming—became widely, if not completely, implemented in web browsers. This meant that web developers had a stable, mature language (JavaScript 1.5) and a common API for manipulating web pages on the client. Several years of stability followed.
But things have started to get interesting again. Developers are now using JavaScript to script HTTP, manipulate XML data, and even draw dynamic graphics in a web browser. Many JavaScript developers have also started to write longer programs and use more sophisticated programming techniques, such as closures and namespaces. This fifth edition has been fully revised for the new world of Ajax and Web 2.0 technologies.
What’s New in the Fifth Edition
In Part I, the chapter on functions (Chapter 8) has been expanded, with particular emphasis on nested functions and closures. The material on defining your own classes has also been expanded and moved to a chapter of its own (Chapter 9). Chapter 10 is another new chapter that covers namespaces, which are essential for writing modular, reusable code. Finally, Chapter 12 demonstrates how to use JavaScript to actually script Java; it shows how to embed a JavaScript interpreter within a Java 6 application and how to use JavaScript to create Java objects and invoke methods on those objects.
In Part II, the coverage of the legacy (Level 0) Document ...
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