Javascript Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks

by James Edwards, Cameron Adams

Using a cookbook approach, The JavaScript Anthology will show you how to apply JavaScript to solve over 101 common Web Development challenges. You'll discover Included in this book is extensive coverage of DHTML and Ajax, including how-to create and customize advanced effects such as draggable elements, dynamically sorting data in a Web Browser, advanced menu systems, retrieving data from a Web Server using XMLHttpRequest and more. The JavaScript Anthology also includes extensive coverage of object oriented coding, efficient script design, accessibility, and cross-browser issues. Best of all, you'll get download access to all the code used in the book, so you can put the scripts to use instantly. From the Publisher "Take control with the ultimate JavaScript toolkit" The JavaScript 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks provides you with tried and tested real-world solutions to over 100 real-world scripting problems. Among the 101 Tips, Tricks & Hacks you'll learn

Who Should Read This Book?

If you're using JavaScript on your projects right now, and you want to do things faster and better, this book is for you. The JavaScript Anthology will save you the frustration of hunting down code on the Web only to find that it isn't customizable, and doesn't represent best practice or work across different browsers. The JavaScript 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks contains thoroughly tested, cross-browser code that you can easily modify to suit your own needs. The book is written in the usual SitePoint it's clear and fun to read, with plenty of example code that you can apply immediately to your own web sites. Plus, it's super-easy to navigate the book to find exactly what you want thanks to its cookbook approach and professionally-produced index. It's the perfect reference book. There's no need to re-type any of the code in the book. As always, customers receive instant download access to all the files used in the book, so you can apply them immediately to your own projects.

Genres: Programming

592 pages, Paperback

First published March 2, 2006

About the author

James Edwards, as a member of the Personal Solutions Group while Groove was under development, used a combination of Macromedia Director, Flash, ActiveX, XML, and JavaScript to develop custom applications on Groove's peer-to-peer application platform, and pioneered Macromedia Shockwave and Flash integration into Groove applications. After having spent the past 15 years creating multimedia titles for Millipore, the Federal Aviation Administration, Digital Equipment Corporation, Parametric Technology, and McGraw-Hill, Jim now writes and provides multimedia and programming services for educational software developers.