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Special Edition Using JavaScript

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It is apparent by looking at the cover of this book how many topics (19 in all) it attempts to cover. However, even a book as lengthy as this one (~ 950 pgs.) simply cannot thoroughly cover all of these subjects. If the book is about JavaScript, it should focus on JavaScript, why is there a Java tutorial? Where did VBScript and Active X come into the picture? Granted, there are not many things the book leaves out, it all seemed extremely scattered and there were very few chapters I left feeling that I had a solid understanding of the JavaScript within them. For instance, in the stylesheets chapter (why there even is one, I'm not sure) there are the two approaches, CSS and JSSS presented. It then proceeds to waste 80% of the chapter on CSS when this is a JavaScript book and the focus should have been on JavaScript stylesheets. It also said very little about how JavaScript can interact with stylesheets. In short, if you are a web beginner looking to get an introduction to a variety of web design topics, I recommend this book. If you are a serious web designer who wants to learn JavaScript basics and advanced functions, keep looking.

This book is a total waste of money if you are seriouly thinking about programming in JavaScript. It doesn't have good examples in fact not once in the book does it even give an example of how to do a roll-over. I thought complete meant complete. This is a waste of money look toward WROX Press or O'Reily.

Don't buy this book if you are planning to make something useful for a Web Site. It just does not help. I bougth it and now I'm using on-line guides to JavaScript to find the syntax of the functions I need, specially to learn how to get the values from Web Forms.

This book is a good reference book for the language (our university used it as a textbook), but it is a little dated now. Dynamic HTML can be powered by JavaScript, and you can create some neat effects..... none of this will be found in this edition.

This is definately a great choice for anyone trying to learn, continue to learn, or master JavaScript. This book can be considered a tool. With several examples in every chapter and definitions, this book has been real useful to me. As a webmaster on the net, and a person who has learned the programming on his own, I strongly would reccommend this book to all!

This book is a total waste of money if you are seriouly thinking about programming in JavaScript. It doesn't have good examples in fact not once in the book does it even give an example of how to do a roll-over. I thought complete meant complete. This is a waste of money look toward WROX Press or O'Reily.

This book seems to provide a fairly good explanation of different elements of Javascript. However, I bought a Javascrpit book with the intention of actually learning how to use Javascript to do something on a web site. This book has been no help at all. Instead of covering Javascript from cover to cover, it strays to JAVA, VBScript, etc.. As with other QUE books I've purchased, it wasn't much help at all

What is wrong with this book? Well, for all the possibilities that JavaScript has, this book almost ignores some of the most impressive. The book DOES cover alot of Javascript. I just don't find much use for the code. On the flip side, the CD-ROM boasts a wide collection of shareware/software. But, in today's computer book market this is commonplace. One last thing... when I buy a book about a subject, I like to have the book cover that subject, and do a thorough job of doing it. This book goes into a chapter on Java, VB script, and plug-ins. I see where the author wants to add more for the buck...but couldn't those pages be used for more useful code examples of JavaScript? Afterall, this is a book about JavaSCript. I shouldn't have to search the web for better and more useful examples. I don't know how other JavaScript books are, since my bookstore doesn't keep alot of books in stock. But, this might be your only hope...unless you've finally learned how to click on "view" and "source" on your internet browser.

This book's coverage of JavaScript is spotty at best. Not even close to being worth the trees it took to print this thing.

Very interesting, i like,,, because of this book i bought the complete collection special edition using java special edition using cgi special edition using jscript special edition using visual j+