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Book:   JavaScript Pocket Reference
Subject:   JavaScript Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition Review
Date:   2003-03-19 14:10:34
From:   Doug Domeny
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar


I refer to this book all the time. I've done extensive development with JavaScript and it would have been painfully slow without this book and its preceding edition. At a 127 pages, it really fills out a lot of the material that was missing from the 1st edition. I had written many notes in my 1st ed. copy and all of that material is now in the 2nd edition. If you have the 1st edition, I recommend getting the 2nd ed because of its broader and deeper and updated coverage of JavaScript.


The TOC is about 2 pages and lists the main JavaScript objects, but not their methods and properties. For a small book, this is fine. I don't have any problem finding the information I need. It doesn't have an index, which would be nice, but isn't necessary.


This is an excellent reference for JavaScript as a language and the DHTML DOM. The only negative thing with the 2nd edition is that the figures in the 1st edition are missing. I refer to figures 1 (client-side object heirarchy) and 2 (windows and frames) so often that I copied them onto the blank pages at the back of the 2nd edition.



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