Download PDF JavaScript™ Bible 5th Edition Danny Goodman with Michael Morrison With a foreword by Brendan Eich, JavaScript’s creator

Sinopsis

Many of the technologies that make the World Wide Web possible have far exceeded their original goals. Envisioned at the outset as a medium for publishing static text and image content across a network, the Web is forever being probed, pushed, and pulled by content authors. By taking for granted so much of the “dirty work” of conveying the bits between server and client computers, content developers and programmers dream of exploiting that connection to generate new user experiences and practical applications.

It’s not uncommon for a developer community to take ownership of a technology and mold it to do new and exciting things. But with so many Web technologies especially browser programming with JavaScript being within reach of everyday folks, we have witnessed an unprecedented explosion in turning the World Wide Web from a bland publishing medium into a highly interactive, operating system–agnostic authoring platform.

The JavaScript language, working in tandem with related browser features, is a Web-enhancing technology. When employed on the client computer, the language can help turn a static page of content into an engaging, interactive, and intelligent experience. Applications can be as subtle as welcoming a site’s visitor with the greeting “Good morning!” when it is morning in the client computer’s time zone—even though it is dinnertime where the server is located. Or applications can be much more obvious, such as delivering the content of a slide show in a one-page download while JavaScript controls the sequence of hiding, showing, and “flying slide” transitions while navigating through the presentation.

Of course, JavaScript is not the only technology that can give life to drab Web content. Therefore, it is important to understand where JavaScript fits within the array of standards, tools, and other technologies at your disposal. The alternative technologies described in this chapter are HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), server programs, and plug-ins. In most cases, JavaScript can work side by side with these other technologies, even though the hype around some make them sound like one-stop shopping places for all your interactive needs. That’s rarely the case. Finally, you learn about the origins of JavaScript and what role it plays in today’s advanced Web browsers.

Content

1.  Getting Started with JavaScript
2. JavaScript’s Role in the World Wide Web and Beyond 
3. Authoring Challenges Amid the Browser Wars
4. Your First JavaScript Script
5. JavaScript Tutorial
6. Browser and Document Objects
7. Scripts and HTML Documents
8. Programming Fundamentals, Part I
9. Programming Fundamentals, Part II
10. Window and Document Objects
11. Forms and Form Elements
12. Strings, Math, and Dates
13. Scripting Frames and Multiple Windows
14. Images and Dynamic HTML
15. Document Objects Reference
16. JavaScript Essentials
17. Document Object Model Essentials
18. Generic HTML Element Objects
19. Window and Frame Objects
20. Location and History Objects
21. The Document and Body Objects
22. Link and Anchor Objects
23. Image, Area, and Map Objects
24. The Form and Related Objects
25. Button Objects
26. Text-Related Form Objects
27. Select, Option, and FileUpload Objects
28.  Event Objects
29. Style Sheet and Style Objects
30. JavaScript Core Language Reference
31. The String Object
32. The Math, Number, and Boolean Objects
33. The Date Object
34. The Array Object
35. Control Structures and Exception Handling
36. JavaScript Operators
37. Functions and Custom Objects
38. Global Functions and Statements
39. Body Text Objects

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