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Title: JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook by Danny Goodman ISBN: 0-596-00467-2 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Practical and Very Useful
Comment: As the title says, this is a cookbook - containing examples and solutions for features and problems a JavaScript programmer may need from time to time.
It is much more than just a collection of cut and paste JavaScript code, although you can use it that way if you want to. It contains lucid and concise explanation of what is going on in each recipe. That is immensely useful if you want to customize the scripts.
The receipes range from fairly simple to quite complex, and at about 150, they are most likely to meet all your needs. They are arranged according to a theme (broswer based customization, style sheets, frames etc). The organization helps you to find what you are looking for very fast and put the solution to immediate use. A discussion at the begining of every chapter is very helpful too.
Whether you do a lot of client side scripting for web applications or are just looking for an occassional script to enhance you web pages, this book is extremely useful. Don't reinvent the wheel, just buy this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another Great Book from Danny Goodman
Comment: Danny Goodman is the author of "JavaScript Bible", probably the most popular book on JavaScript as it went through 5 editions, the last one being the Gold edition published in 2001. I have used JavaScript Bible extensively and intensively, often longing for a cross-index of recipes for solving problems. This new book by the author addresses that need in the form of a cookbook, one carefully written and eminently readable. Not only does he give clear recipes, he also discusses some history and background, lists which browser version is required, both for Netscape and Internet Explorer, then weighs the pros and cons of different approaches.
The recipes range from the mundane, like opening a window, to the more esoteric for positioning page elements or creating dynamic contents. Even if one does not plan to use a recipe, it is still enlightening to see how JavaScript or some feature of it is brought to bear on solving a particular problem. Most cookbooks assume you already know the subject quite well, then launch on intricate discussions often discouraging to neophytes. Here, the way Danny Goodman writes, the clarity of his style, and the completeness of his coverage, make this book well suited to every reader level. If your JavaScript knowledge is only nascent, you will be enlightened with this book. If you are a JavaScript "expert", be surprised that you will still learn many new techniques.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent compilation of useful code snippets.
Comment: I've had the book two days and it has paid for itself a couple times over already. I wish I'd had it about two weeks earlier.
If you 1) already know a programming language such as C (or really, any procedural language for that matter), 2) are new to Javascript and 3) need to do some web programming with Javascript, this book is great. Before I bought it, I tried to figure out some of the stuff myself
(ie common Javascript problems: 'data validation in a textbox in a form','setting the focus','opening a new window','jumping back to the parent window',etc)
by using my Javascript language reference book and looking up the problem on the web. I'd usually find a solution, but if I would have had this book at the time I could have just looked it up and saved myself a load of time.
I'd almost recommend it before a Javascript reference (but you'll eventually need one of those anyway).
So, it will come in the most handy for someone relatively new to Javascript who needs to get up to speed quickly on common Javascript tasks, but will also remain useful even to an expert as a reference book of often needed useful code snippets.
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Title: Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference (2nd Edition) by Danny Goodman ISBN: 0596003161 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan ISBN: 0596000480 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide by Eric Meyer ISBN: 1565926226 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition by Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy ISBN: 059600382X Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design by Eric A. Meyer ISBN: 073571245X Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 28 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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