Professional
JavaScript for Web Developers provides a developer-level introduction
along with the more advanced and useful features of JavaScript.
Starting at the beginning, the book explores how JavaScript originated
and evolved into what it is today. A detailed discussion of the
components that make up a JavaScript implementation follows, with
specific focus on standards such as ECMAScript and the Document Object
Model (DOM). The differences in JavaScript implementations used in
different popular Web browsers are also discussed. Building on that
base, the book moves on to cover basic concepts of JavaScript including
its version of object-oriented programming, inheritance, and its use in
various markup languages such as HTML. An in-depth examination of
events and event handling is followed by an exploration of browser
detection techniques and a guide to using regular expressions in
JavaScript. The book then takes all this knowledge and applies it to
creating dynamic user interfaces. The last part of the book is focused
on issues related to the deployment of JavaScript solutions in Web
applications. These topics include error handling, debugging, security,
optimization/obfuscation, XML, and Web Services.
