Mastering JavaScript and JScript [Paperback]

James Jaworski (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0782124925 | ISBN-13: 978-0782124927 | Publication Date: April 23, 1999 | Edition: 1

Make Your Web Site Dynamic

But how? Mastering JavaScript and JScript teaches you everything you need to know about these popular scripting languages to transform any Web site into a dynamic, interactive, practical application. For those without programming knowledge, it starts at the beginning: you'll learn basic concepts and skills and quickly go on to tackle the tasks you want to accomplish. For experienced programmers, it offers plenty of advanced instruction. Jaworski, a scripting expert, shares insights and techniques that will see you through the most challenging projects.

Coverage includes:
* Writing client-side JavaScript and JScript
* Ensuring that your scripts work with IE and Navigator
* Writing server-side JavaScript
* Writing LiveWire applications
* Integrating JScript with Active Server Pages
* Using JavaScript to connect to databases
* Using JavaScript with Java applets
* Using JScript with ActiveX
* Using Windows Scripting Host
* Handling events
* Working with objects
* Communicating with plug-ins
* Processing forms
* Using hidden fields and cookies
* Creating Web page widgets
* Developing search tools
* Programming games
* Interfacing with CGI programs
* Working with style sheets and DHTML
* Securing your scripts

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Make Your Web Site Dynamic

But how? Mastering JavaScript and JScript teaches you everything you need to know about these popular scripting languages to transform any Web site into a dynamic, interactive, practical application. For those without programming knowledge, it starts at the beginning: you'll learn basic concepts and skills and quickly go on to tackle the tasks you want to accomplish. For experienced programmers, it offers plenty of advanced instruction. Jaworski, a scripting expert, shares insights and techniques that will see you through the most challenging projects.

Coverage includes:

• Writing client-side JavaScript and JScript
• Ensuring that your scripts work with IE and Navigator
• Writing server-side JavaScript
• Writing LiveWire applications
• Integrating JScript with Active Server Pages
• Using JavaScript to connect to databases
• Using JavaScript with Java applets
• Using JScript with ActiveX
• Using Windows Scripting Host
• Handling events
• Working with objects
• Communicating with plug-ins
• Processing forms
• Using hidden fields and cookies
• Creating Web page widgets
• Developing search tools
• Programming games
• Interfacing with CGI programs
• Working with style sheets and DHTML
• Securing your scripts

About the Author

James Jaworski has written five books on Java and JavaScript, including Java 2 Unleashed and The Java Developer's Guide. He also writes the SuperScripter column for CNET's popular Web site for Webmasters, Builder.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 960 pages
• Publisher: Sybex; 1 edition (April 23, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782124925
• ISBN-13: 978-0782124927
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 2.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,894,374 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst book I ever bought, April 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Mastering JavaScript and JScript (Paperback)

I bought Mastering Javascript and Jscript as a supplement to another book Javascript Goodies. I wanted a good, comprehensive reference. The same day I got Mastering Javasript and Jscript, however, I also wanted to send it back. Wish I had. It's an absolutely useless book. You go to look something up, and all it does is give you a table of items with what you're looking up included in the table. It never tells you what the item is or how to use it--basically all it does is confirm that the item is there in the overall javascript or jscript spec. So, I have to go back to the first book to find this out, or go out onto the internet. The last thing I checked was using jscript to connect to a database via Asp technology. It doesn't even give you a hint. It covers this important subject with just one short paragraph. In it, it tells you to go to a different chapter covering a different technology, LiveWire. It says that the operation to accomplish this is essentially the same as with Livewire, "only the object names, methods and syntax are changed". So it's the same but it's completely different. A person would have to plod through all the information on LiveWire to find this particular info; basically, he'd have to learn LiveWire just to do a simple thing like connect up a database via asp. After all his/her effort, moreover, he'd still have no guarantee that he'd be able to accomplish what he wants because LiveWire and asp are different, so he'd have to rely on guesswork. Or, he'd have to do like I'm doing, look out onto the internet.

No information whatsoever was given on how to do this probably simple thing using asp. That's typical of this book--all it ever does is confirm that something is there. (Want to know about document.write? Well, it exists. The end.) It's a complete waste of money and of space. It doesn't even rate one half a star.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money!, May 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Mastering JavaScript and JScript (Paperback)

This book contains invalid code samples. I copied one of it's codes exactly and tried to use it with Internet Explorer 5, Netscape Communicator 4.6, and Netscape Navigator 3. They all gave me javascript errors. It spends too much time on talking about Javascript code and it's origins and not nearly enough time on HOW to code. I strongly suggest that you don't buy this.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No effort went into making this book, August 1, 2001

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Derek Owens (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mastering JavaScript and JScript (Paperback)

This is a truly awful book. It is a classic example of some joker throwing some stuff down on paper and trying to sell it. Despite its large size, it contains very little information. The book mostly consists of lengthy, unhelpful examples printed in a large font to take up space. I ended up returning it and getting the Beginning Javascript book from the Programmer to Programmer series, and it's great. Don't waste your money on this one, though.