JavaScript Objects

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 480 pages
• Published by: Wrox Press
• Edition: 1st Edition November 1998
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1861001894
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1861001894
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.1 inches
• Weighs: 1.6 pounds

Book Description
This book makes object-oriented programming accessible and understandable to web developers. It gives great real world examples, which will work for those who only understand enough about HTML and scripting to insert them in their web pages. Plus JavaScript Objects goes on to show how to customize examples for those with greater knowledge of scripting. This enables more experienced readers to go on and build their own tools and demonstrates the powers of JavaScript as an object-oriented programming language, which has far more potential for the development of large scale applications than is currently appreciated.

Download Description
You should read this book if you want to be able to take your Internet Explorer scripting - and your web pages - to a new level of sophistication. Object-oriented programming is the programming trend of the now, and JScript is well placed to part of this trend.

To get the most out of this book, a basic knowledge of IE4's JScript is assumed. You should also be reasonably familiar with HTML and stylesheets. However, we have included some tips on how they work in our examples, and a comprehensive reference section. Programmers from other languages, such as C++ or Java, as well as users of other flavors of JavaScript, who are looking to mimic some of the power and versatility of these languages in their code will find this book invaluable.

Who is this book for?

This is a book of JavaScript tools and projects for people who make web pages, and the programmers and future programmers who work with them. It can be used for self study, for web authoring, for web application programming, and as a textbook in a college course on 'Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript.'

What does this book cover?

Makes object-oriented programming accessible and understandable to web developers

Gives great real world examples which will work for those who only understand enough about HTML and scripting to insert them in their web pages

Reader Reviews
Your code can benefit from object-oriented programming even if your language doesn't support it directly. Javascript provides more support for O-O programming than (say) C, although much less than Java. JSO shows you how to write client-side applications in object-oriented Javascript. It leads you through useful examples using the technique, demonstrating that you can do many sophisticated and useful things with this 'scripting' language. For very experienced programmers, this will at times be a slow, but most developers will benefit from the close attention to the code. JSO doubles as a concise introduction and reference to Javascript, covering it better in eighty pages than those bricks in the bookstore do in 1200. The strength of this book is also its weakness. Since it focusses on client-side functionality, its example of client/server Web programming is unrealistically tilted towards providing all functionality on the client. But, given the current state of the art, I can't think of a better way of doing this without spending too much time on server-side issues. Along the same lines, the current incompatibilities among implementations force it to be browser-specific (Internet Explorer). Overall, this is probably the best book on client-side Javascript programming -- as long as you don't care about cross-browser compatibility. Comment | | (Report this)