JavaScript Advanced Programming

Author: Zachas
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: JavaScript is currently the main programming language for Web client-side development and one of the core technologies of Ajax. This book starts with JavaScript in the early Netscape browser and covers its current support for XML and Web services. The content primarily focuses on the language features of JavaScript, its interaction with browsers, advanced JavaScript techniques, and issues related to deploying JavaScript solutions in Web applications, such as error handling, debugging, security, optimization/minification, XML, and Web services. It concludes by introducing how to apply all this knowledge to create dynamic user interfaces. This book is suitable for developers with some programming experience and can also serve as a textbook for relevant courses in higher education.
JavaScript is currently the main programming language for Web client-side development and one of the core technologies of Ajax. This book starts with JavaScript in the early Netscape browser and covers its current support for XML and Web services. The content primarily focuses on the language features of JavaScript, its interaction with browsers, advanced JavaScript techniques, and issues related to deploying JavaScript solutions in Web applications, such as error handling, debugging, security, optimization/minification, XML, and Web services. It concludes by introducing how to apply all this knowledge to create dynamic user interfaces. This book is suitable for developers with some programming experience and can also serve as a textbook for relevant courses in higher education.
[Editor's Recommendation]
"If you, like me, want to learn or master today's popular Web development technologies, this book is an excellent starting point and is perfect to read before any other Ajax books." – J. Ambrose Little, Microsoft MVP
"The author clearly understands the readers' needs, hits the mark, and delivers dense information. The detailed explanations of modern JavaScript techniques such as client-side communication, Web services, regular expressions, DOM, and XML processing alone are worth the price." – JavaScriptKit.com
JavaScript, as one of the primary means of adding interactivity and dynamism to web pages, has long been a skill for Web designers and developers. Countless web pages rely on JavaScript every day to perform various critical tasks. However, JavaScript may also be one of the most misunderstood and misused mainstream programming languages. Many view it as an incomplete little brother to object-oriented programming languages like Java, or even dismiss it as mere trifling, showing little regard for it. Today, as more programmers shift to browser/server model development, coupled with the rise of Web 2.0 and Ajax, JavaScript has been pushed to the center stage. People are beginning to realize that JavaScript is far from being an easy or simple technology to learn and master—it combines the characteristics of object-oriented, procedural, and functional languages, perfectly blending flexibility with powerful functionality. To date, its astonishing potential has yet to be fully unleashed.
This book is written for developers and experienced Web designers. After briefly covering the core of JavaScript's language, ECMAScript, as well as its object-oriented features, BOM, and DOM, it quickly moves on to advanced topics: regular expressions, events, data validation, table sorting, effects, error handling, debugging, XML, Web services, security, internationalization, optimization, and intellectual property protection, addressing the urgent challenges faced by Web developers today.