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A guide for experienced programmers demonstrates the core JavaScript language, offers examples of common tasks, and contains an extensive reference to JavaScript commands, objects, methods, and properties.

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0596000480
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978-0596000486
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Fourth
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Oreilly & Associates Inc
Publication date

November 1, 2001
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English
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7.13 x 1.69 x 9.25 inches
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916 pages
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Since the earliest days of Internet scripting, Web developers have considered JavaScript: The Definitive Guide an essential resource. David Flanagan's approach, which combines tutorials and examples with easy-to-use syntax guides and object references, suits the typical programmer's requirements nicely. The brand-new fourth edition of Flanagan's "Rhino Book" includes coverage of JavaScript 1.5, JScript 5.5, ECMAScript 3, and the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 standard from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Interestingly, the author has shifted away from specifying--as he did in earlier editions--what browsers support each bit of the language. Rather than say Netscape 3.0 supports the Image object while Internet Explorer 3.0 does not, he specifies that JavaScript 1.1 and JScript 3.0 support Image. More usefully, he specifies the contents of independent standards like ECMAScript, which encourages scripters to write applications for these standards and browser vendors to support them. As Flanagan says, JavaScript and its related subjects are very complex in their pure forms. It's impossible to keep track of the differences among half a dozen vendors' generally similar implementations. Nonetheless, a lot of examples make reference to specific browsers' capabilities.

Though he does not cover server-side APIs, Flanagan has chosen to separate coverage of core JavaScript (all the keywords, general syntax, and utility objects like Array) from coverage of client-side JavaScript (which includes objects, like History and Event, that have to do with Web browsers and users' interactions with them. This approach makes this book useful to people using JavaScript for applications other than Web pages. By the way, the other classic JavaScript text--Danny Goodman's JavaScript Bible--isn't as current as this book, but it's still a fantastic (and perhaps somewhat more novice-friendly) guide to the JavaScript language and its capabilities. --David Wall

Topics covered: The JavaScript language (version 1.0 through version 1.5) and its relatives, JScript and ECMAScript, as well as the W3C DOM standards they're often used to manipulate. Tutorial sections show how to program in JavaScript, while reference sections summarize syntax and options while providing copious code examples.

About the Author

David Flanagan is a computer programmer who spends most of his time writing about JavaScript and Java. His books with O'Reilly include Java in a Nutshell, Java Examples in a Nutshell, Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, and JavaScript Pocket Reference. David has a degree in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives with his wife and son in the U.S. Pacific Northwest bewteen the cities of Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia. David has a simple website at http://www.davidflanagan.com.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oreilly & Associates Inc; Fourth edition (November 1, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 916 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0596000480
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0596000486
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.88 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.13 x 1.69 x 9.25 inches

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Happy Harry

Excellent, the best book out there on the subject

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2005

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Like a lot of people who have been doing web work for a while, I had learned JavaScript a little at a time, figuring out a few tricks here and there but never really going that deep. I had always sort of written it off as a light-weight language and had turned to Perl or PHP when I really needed to do something serious on the web. This book has changed all of that. From start to finish, the explanations were clear and thorough and I came away with a very solid understanding of the language. There are lots of books and web sites that will teach you how to pop open a new window or do a simple rollover, but if you're ready to really learn what JavaScript can do, this book is the one to turn to.

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John Pittaway

Must Have Reference, Especially for VB Programmers

Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2003

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In order to program the client/browser side of any WEB application one must understand both the brower object model and the JScript language. I'm more then 10 years out of C programming and the Java thing makes me yawn.
This book explains the browser object and JScript language in an extremely useful manner. The theory pages do not waste my time and do not insult my intellegence. The reference pages get to the point.
VB programmers with no C experience will find this book very accesable.

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Warren J. Dew

Definitely a Definitive Guide - But Is That What You Want?

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2003

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If you're looking for a complete reference on the JavaScript programming language, this is it. This book teaches the JavaScript language from the ground up and includes a very complete reference section.
On the other hand, if all you want is to write or understand JavaScript in its most common use - providing a little more dynamic content in web pages than can be done with html alone - the book may be overkill. For example, in addition to the useful sections on client side JavaScript - the JavaScript that you include in your web pages to be run in the client's browser - there are even larger sections that are really only useful for server side JavaScript - as if anyone uses JavaScript on the server side. As an experienced C, C++, and Java programmer, I had to wade through quite a bit of redundant material before I could effectively use the book to answer the simple questions I had.
In addition, some critical issues about using client side JavaScript are omitted from the book. For example, there is a chapter on security, but it only covers security issues applicable to the user - that with modern browsers, it's pretty safe for the user to allow JavaScripts to run. Issues pertaining to the security of the web site and the server it runs on - far more important to someone writing JavaScript code - are omitted. The book even provides a very unsafe example of allowing a client side script to calculate sales tax, which if used would make it easy for someone to tell your site he owed less tax than he really did, leaving the website owner holding the bag. It would have been better to include these server security issues and omit the client security issues.
Still, this book will let you find the answers to your questions, even if it does take longer than it seems like it should.

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Mitchel J. Haas

Must have for learning and reference

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2004

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As a long time C++ programmer, I found this book to be neither too hard or too easy. Readers with no programming experience at all might have a harder time with the text, but if you have any kind of programming background, the text will serve you well. As a reference, the text is second to none. Even the DOM reference is one of the best out there.

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Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2013

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I used through chapter 12, after that I was all set for what I needed. If you are going to commit teh entiure thing with self study, good luck! LOL

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Lori A. Cook

Good - but examples use Internet Explorer extensions

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2004

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide is an excellent reference book. Unfortunately many (if not all) of the examples use Internet Explorer extensions instead of standard methods/properties. For a newbie this can be frustrating when the example in the book does not work. And even then I discovered I had to make changes to some of the examples to work on Internet Explorer 6.0. If the examples used the standard (and only the standard) methods and properties this headache would be reduced and, maybe, eliminated.

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Shan

Javascript All in one Book.

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2008

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If you want to master Javascript and read just one book, then this must be the book you want to buy. Covers A-Z, detailed. If you are beginning on AJAX then this book is must read if you are Javascript beginner. 5 Stars.

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2015

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It's a very good book.

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alfonso

Ottimo

Reviewed in Italy on September 16, 2017

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Ottimo libro..sia per contenuto che per qualità...È fatto davvero bene, spiega nel dettaglio tutti i costrutti dell linguaggio java script

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Fantástico Manual de javascript

Reviewed in Spain on August 6, 2017

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Si lo que buscas es una guía completa del núcleo del java script este es tu libro. Magistral guía de referencia del lenguaje. Aun habiendo adquirido una versión antigua, he podido estudiar el java script en profundidad. Magnífico libro. Tanto para los que se inician en este lenguaje como para los que puntualmente pueden necesitar una guía de referencia para refrescar métodos y comandos....-

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P. M. Hawkes

Best book for learning JavaScript

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 9, 2004

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This book is better than Danny Goodman's JS Bible and Danny Goodman's Dynamic DHTML - The Definitive Guide (although a very good book in its own right). If you know some JavaScript but wish learn it properly then by this book, you will not be disappointed.
Despite other peoples comments about it being dry and only good as a reference, I have to say I disagree. It's a book you can't put down once you start reading it and the best reference for JavaScript I have read.
Probably not the ideal book for total newbie's but as long as you know the basics of JavaScript or have some experience with a similar scripting language such as PHP this book will set you on the right road.

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Ulf Wendel

no doubt

Reviewed in Germany on March 18, 2002

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There're two Perl book in this world: the Camel books. And there's one JavaScript book: Flanagan's book.
Revision 3 covered JavaScript 1.3 as a scription language, the new revision covers: JavaScript, DOM, CSS... In case you don't need FAQ like examples but facts and you're looking for a deeper understanding of JavaScript as a language just go for this book.

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lidia

Perfect

Reviewed in Italy on January 9, 2015

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A second-hand book, but very well-kept. Neither underlines nor pencil signs. I'm really happy. Excellent purchase, thank you very much!

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