Mon, 02 Oct 2006
Javascript
David Flanagan, Javascript: The Definitive Guide,
5th Edition, O'Reilly
Not much loved, but very frequently used on the Web to perform
all kinds of tasks, this book sets the whole thing out and it must
have had quite a few takers in the past as this is the fifth
edition.
I wonder to what extent AJAX has spurred things on. The "J"
stands for javascript but I suspect that a great number of people
will be using frameworks to get their AJAX things happening
rather than writing lots of javascript code. Those, however, that
take some time over learning javascript properly will be ahead
of the game.
And this book would do just fine for that purpose. It starts out by
looking at datatypes and statements and looks at the DOM and XML,
amongst other things, and then gives a full run through of objects
and methods. These are always fun to look through as usually
there's something to get an idea flickering.
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