Programming JavaScript for Netscape 2.0 with CDROM [Paperback]

Tim Ritchey (Author), Timothy D. Ritchey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1996

This book is a reference guide to understanding Java, server issues, and network benefits. Readers will learn the ins and outs of Java so that they can create, access, and support compelling, dynamic, and interactive Web content with Netscape 2.0.
-- Provides information on server administration for Netscape 2.0 and Java
-- Lists Netscape 2.0 HTML additions
-- CD-ROM includes JavaScript examples from the text and the Sun Java Developer's Kit

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This book is a reference guide to understanding Java, server issues, and network benefits. Readers will learn the ins and outs of Java so that you can create, access, and support compelling, dynamic, and interactive Web content with Netscape 2.0. - Provides information on server administration for Netscape 2.0 and Java

- Lists Netscape 2.0 HTML additions

- CD-ROM includes JavaScript examples from the text and the Sun Java Developer's Kit

Product Details

• Paperback: 469 pages
• Publisher: New Riders Publishing (March 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562055852
• ISBN-13: 978-1562055851
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.2 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,191,970 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Half of This Book is Devoted to Java INSTEAD of Javascript!, May 27, 1996

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This review is from: Programming JavaScript for Netscape 2.0 with CDROM (Paperback)

I found this book disappointing. Fully one half of the book deals with Java instead of Javascript. The two languages, while somewhat similiar (like perl is similiar to C), are vastly different in implementation and structure. Javascript, along with its cousin, Java, has been around for sometime. However, usage of it by anyone other than its creator, Sun MicroSystems, languished until Microsoft announced it would include recognition of the languages in its browser. (Netscape has already incorporated this feature, obviously.) A media blitz ensued, and everyone is trying out Java and Javascript. The book was obviously rushed to the press as soon as humanly possible to take advantage of the novelty of the new language (as well as the head-line grabbing battle over Internet browser standards between Netscape and Microsoft). As many people are discovering, depending on Java applets in Web pages, given current internet demographics, is a poor choice, since a 32-bit O/S (Windows 95/NT, Macintosh, Unix) is required for the applets to run. Javascript does not have this restriction, making it immediately usable. Unlike other scripting languages currently used on the web, there is only one platform to write for, since the script is implemented by the browser (Netscape, and soon Internet Explorer) and runs on the viewer's computer. My specific gripes about this book: there were NO Javascripts on in the included CD, the language itself was not fully explored: class structures were given but the contents of the classes were nowhere to be found. (For instance, reading/and writing to server files was not even covered, and libraries not expanded.) When I buy a book about one subject, I don't want to know about another not even mentioned in the title page. But the real bottom line is this: I think understanding how to program a language should be a prerequisite to writing a book about it.