Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, 3rd Edition

Description

A significant update to a bestselling JavaScript book

As the key scripting language for the web, JavaScript is supported by every modern web browser and allows developers to create client-side scripts that take advantage of features such as animating the canvas tag and enabling client-side storage and application caches. After an in-depth introduction to the JavaScript language, this updated edition of a bestseller progresses to break down how JavaScript is applied for web development using the latest web development technologies. Veteran author and JavaScript guru Nicholas Zakas shows how JavaScript works with the new HTML5 as well as other significant advances in web development as it relates to JavaScript.
* Begins with an introduction to JavaScript basics and then moves on to more advanced topics regarding JavaScript and advances in web development technologies
* Describes how JavaScript is implemented into HTML5
* Covers browser/feature detection in scripts, event-driven JavaScript development, error reporting and debugging, offline application and data storage, and more

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, 3rd Edition is an authoritative JavaScript resource that every web developers should have.

CONTENTS:

FOREWORD xxxi

INTRODUCTION xxxiii

CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS JAVASCRIPT? 1

CHAPTER 2: JAVASCRIPT IN HTML 13

CHAPTER 3: LANGUAGE BASICS 25

CHAPTER 4: VARIABLES, SCOPE, AND MEMORY 85

CHAPTER 5: REFERENCE TYPES 103

CHAPTER 6: OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING 173

CHAPTER 7: FUNCTION EXPRESSIONS 217

CHAPTER 8: THE BROWSER OBJECT MODEL 239

CHAPTER 9: CLIENT DETECTION 271

CHAPTER 10: THE DOCUMENT OBJECT MODEL 309

CHAPTER 11: DOM EXTENSIONS 357

CHAPTER 12: DOM LEVELS 2 AND 3 381

CHAPTER 13: EVENTS 431

CHAPTER 14: SCRIPTING FORMS 511

CHAPTER 15: GRAPHICS WITH CANVAS 551

CHAPTER 16: HTML5 SCRIPTING 591

CHAPTER 17: ERROR HANDLING AND DEBUGGING 607

CHAPTER 18: XML IN JAVASCRIPT 641

CHAPTER 19: ECMASCRIPT FOR XML 671

CHAPTER 20: JSON 691

CHAPTER 21: AJAX AND COMET 701

CHAPTER 22: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES 731

CHAPTER 23: OFFLINE APPLICATIONS AND CLIENT-SIDE STORAGE 765

CHAPTER 24: BEST PRACTICES 801

CHAPTER 25: EMERGING APIS 835

APPENDIX A: ECMASCRIPT HARMONY 857

APPENDIX B: STRICT MODE 877

APPENDIX C: JAVASCRIPT LIBRARIES 885

APPENDIX D: JAVASCRIPT TOOLS 891

INDEX 897