JavaScript: The Complete Reference, Third Edition is the definitive JavaScript resource. This third edition is completely revised to cover the newest changes to JavaScript up to version 1.9, the latest browser-specific features for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome, as well popular JavaScript frameworks like jquery. All examples presented focus on the emergence of HTML5 and its various APIs including canvas, storage and more.
This comprehensive guide shows developers how to build dynamic, cross-browser Web sites and applications using JavaScript. They'll learn not only the syntax of language, but its related object models, and combine this knowledge to develop practical applications.
Thomas Powell, lecturer for the University of California, San Diego, is the author of HTML & CSS: The Complete Reference and Ajax: The Complete Reference. He is president and founder of PINT, a Web site design and development firm.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction to JavaScript; Chapter 2. JavaScript Core Features; Chapter 3. Data Types & Variables; Chapter 4. Operators, Expressions & Statements; Chapter 5. Functions; Chapter 6. Objects; Chapter 7. Array, Date, Math; Chapter 8. Regular Expressions; Chapter 9. JavaScript Object Models; Chapter 10. The Standard DOM; Chapter 11. Event Handling; Chapter 12. Cnt. Windows & Frames; Chapter 13. Handling Documents; Chapter 14. Form Handling; Chapter 15. DHTML and Beyond; Chapter 16. Canvas; Chapter 17. JavaScript UIs; Chapter 18. Browser Detection; Chapter 19. Cookies & Persistence; Chapter 20. JS & Embedded Objects; Chapter 21. Ajax and Remote JS; Chapter 22. JavaScript and XML; Chapter 23. Browser Specific JS; Chapter 24. JavaScript Security; Chapter 25. JavaScript Practices