With the proliferation of new, standards-compliant browsers, virtually all users and Web sites can successfully use the latest JavaScript techniques. This task-based, visual-reference guide has been fully revised and uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to give beginning and intermediate scripters what they need to know to keep their skills up-to-date. Readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the programming language, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. In this updated ninth edition, readers will find new information on scripting for mobile devices and updated code to work with the latest versions of all major browsers. Readers will also find an expanded focus on getting their JavaScript done quickly by using the near-ubiquitous jQuery library.
Tom Negrino is the author of dozens of books including Visual QuickStart Guides covering Keynote and Contribute, and Visual QuickProject Guides on PowerPoint, Quicken, and upgrading Mac OS X. Dori Smith is the author of Java 2: Visual QuickStart Guide. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, publisher of the Wise-Women’s Web community, and a founding member of the Web Standards Project. Together they’ve written Styling Web Pages with CSS: Visual QuickProject Guide and several best-selling editions of Dreamweaver: Visual QuickStart Guide. They have also written numerous print and online articles, and publish the Backup Brain weblog. Tom and Dori have lived in Northern California’s wine country since they fled the Los Angeles area in 1999.