JavaScript DOM Programming Art

Author: (English) Keith, translated by Yang Tao, Wang Jianqiao, Yang Xiaoyun
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: "This book should be considered a classic. The writing is clear, it employs excellent programming principles, and strictly adheres to the relevant standards. Truly a perfect combination." —Slashdot "I highly recommend this book. It uniquely demonstrates the true potential of DOM scripting. Whether you are a JavaScript beginner or an expert, this book is a must-read." —Garrent Dimon, Digital-Web.com
With the rise of Ajax, JavaScript has once again become a hot technology. However, historically, it hasn’t always been this fortunate. Due to the incompatibility between mainstream browsers, JavaScript-based DHTML was a fleeting trend that quickly faded into oblivion. The past is the past. Today, web design has turned a new page. After CSS completely revolutionized web page layout, the W3C’s cross-browser DOM standards paved the way for JavaScript to finally break through its bottleneck and become a powerful tool for significantly enhancing the user experience.
After briefly introducing the basics of JavaScript and DOM, this book demonstrates master-level web development techniques through several examples and thoroughly explains some crucial JavaScript programming principles and best practices, including planning for contingencies, gradual progress, and user-centric design. Readers can intuitively grasp these concepts and quickly elevate their programming skills.
While covering the fundamentals of JavaScript and DOM, this book focuses on the underlying philosophy and principles behind DOM programming: planning for contingencies, gradual progress, and user-centric design. These concepts are vital for any front-end web development work. The book integrates these ideas into all code examples, showing you scripts for creating image galleries, scripts for animation effects, and scripts for enriching page element presentation. Finally, it combines everything to build a practical website.
This book is suitable for web designers and developers.