By Nick Heinle
September 1997
Pages: 252
ISBN 10: 1-56592-300-6 |
ISBN 13: 9781565923003
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DescriptionWritten by the author of the "JavaScript Tip of the Week" Web site, this book focuses on the most useful and applicable scripts for making truly interactive, engaging Web sites. You'll not only have quick access to the scripts you need, you'll finally understand why the scripts work, how to alter the scripts to get the effects you want, and, ultimately, how to write your own groundbreaking scripts from scratch.
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This isn't a hard-core programming book; it isn't geared toward someone who has a computer science degree from MIT and five years experience of programming in C++. This is the JavaScript book for the rest of us. Written by the author of the "JavaScript Tip of the Week" Web site, this book focuses on the most useful and applicable scripts for making truly interactive, engaging Web sites (and it doesn't proclaim to be the definitive all-knowing JavaScript guide).
You'll not only have quick access to the scripts you need, you'll finally understand why the scripts work, how to alter the scripts to get the effects you want, and, ultimately, how to write your own groundbreaking scripts from scratch. Through his popular Web site, Nick Heinle has been showing Web designers and other nonprogrammers how to create the scripts they need. In fact, he wrote much of the JavaScript used on the Web today. This book is the culmination of his work. His explanations are clear, detailed, and accessible; everything -- every script, every concept, every line -- is explained so that "the rest of us" will understand.
Designing with JavaScript covers many of the powerful capabilities that JavaScript is given with Dynamic HTML, in a few chapters covering important aspects of implementing Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 as well as Netscape Navgigator 4.0. You'll learn how to create pages on the fly, how to identify users' browsers, how to create "rollover" effects with sound, graphics, and animation, and more. It also features a CD-ROM and Web site that provide fast access to some of the author's most useful functions and scripts, making it easy to find the code you need and to build your own custom scripts.
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Designing with JavaScript Review, June 15 2000
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This book would have been better marketed if it were noted that this book is NOT oriented towards programmers, such as myself. This book made it quite difficult to find simple references on variable declarations, control structures, special constructors & variables, and all those other things that us "programmer-types" want to know immediately. It is handy for occasional reference (in the index section in the back of the book), but is overall lacking in full explanation and detail that a gear-head would want.
Media reviews "very intuitive and not like other programming books you may read, Nick shows you great Java scripts that shows you how to write Java through a great deal of examples and explanations that a new user can understand...this book is well written and gets my approval, if you are looking to learn JavaScript, or if you already are very experienced in it you will want to pickup the book as it will show you stuff that you didn't know you could do." --Raymond Angel, thirdgeek.com, May 2001
"A useful book for the web page designer who does not wish to tackle Java programming but wishes to make pages adaptable and dynamic."- Brian Bramer, C Vu, Mar 1998
"The title of the first chapter of this book captures its spirit and why you should buy it. It's called "Diving into JavaScript." By the end of the chapter, you've learned how to do some usefully appealing things on your own Web site just by copying and making small adaptations to the JavaScript code supplied by the author. (In fact, the automatically changed date on our "Today" page and several other points from this chapter are currently in use on whatis.com. Although JavaScript is indeed a programming language, it's designed to be treated just the way the author treats it - as, first, a bag of ready-made tricks from which non-programmers can easily select and, secondly, as a language that you create your own tricks with. We looked at a number of JavaScript books at our local Barnes and Noble and this is the one we had to have." --whatis.com
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