AdvancED DOM Scripting: Dynamic Web Design Techniques
Product Description
As a web designer or developer, you know how powerful DOM scripting is for enhancing web pages and applications, adding dynamic functionality and improving the user experience. You’ve got a reasonable understanding of JavaScript and the DOM, but now you want to take your skills further. This book is all you need to do soit shows you how to add essential functionality to your web pages, such as on the fly layout and style changes, interface personalization, maps and search using APIs, visual effects using JavaScript libraries, and much more.
- Includes a quick recap of the basics, for reference purposes.
- Packed with real world JavaScript solutions from beginning to end
- Written by “Beginning Google Maps” author Jeffrey Sambells, and includes a case study by JavaScript guru Aaron Gustafson.
What you’ll learn
- A quick recap of the HTML and CSS DOM, methods, and events.
- Shows you the basics of how to add dynamic effects and respond to user actions to your web sites using CSS and JavaScript.
- Introduces Ajax to the mix, showing you how to use it, and when not to use it.
- Learn best practices (such as graceful degredation) and productivity improvement via code reuse (libraries and APIs)
- Create Mashups using search, photo and mapping APIs.
- Build better, more dynamic user experiences using libraries such as Prototype and Scriptaculous.
Who is this book for?
This book is for intermediate to advanced web designers and developers who already have a reasonable to good knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
This is truly a next generation book for building software on the web. There is nothing like it anywhere else. If you want to add the functionality, scalability, accessibility and the inevitable “bling of web 2.0″, then you NEED to buy this book.
Jeff’s writing style and tone in this book are perfect. He makes complicated topics simple and intuitive and presents real-world examples you can use today.
Only Caution: Don’t buy this if you’re a beginner (it’s an AdvancED book for a reason). You’ll want a good understanding of CSS, Javascript and HTML to get the most out of this book. All professional web software engineers will want this book close by 24/7.
Rating: 5 / 5
If you already know a lot about scripting it is probably a brilliant book but do not attempt to read it as a newbie.
I am not new to scripting but I found most of it too advanced – The parts I could follow had great solutions and suggestions though.
Rating: 3 / 5
I bought this book when it was first published and have been using it ever since as THE BEST advanced level academic quality learning material and now also as a reference manual! Of course, before you can start learning about advanced issues like object oriented ness and closures you definitely need to work your way through some lower level texts that prepare you for and lay the foundations of these advanced topics! Therefore, I simply don’t understand those who complain about their difficulties when they should only take the book for what it says in its title: an ADVANCED level material!
If you want to hear my advice the best approach is if you start with some basic level text to learn all you can about controlling structures, functions and data types and such. Then, for me an excellent next choice was learning from “The Javascript Anthology” by sitepoint which takes off from what someone fancifully called an “advanced beginner” level and quite systematically helped me improve my skills to be able to understand the more advanced features of the language.
Once you have got to this point you will very much appreciate Sambell’s level of professionalism and benefit a lot from holding a specialist book in your hand that could be very well used in a university course!
Rating: 5 / 5
I was looking for a book with a good information for a web developer. I do not need the book explain every step.
This book contains various case studies about using apis, photo cropping, file uploads…
Is a good book for a web developer to improve his dom scripting skills.
Rating: 4 / 5
This is the greatest Modern JavaScript, DOM Scripting, and AJAX book I’ve ever seen. Having done AJAX since 1999 before the buzzword ever became popular, I can say that a book this exhaustive has never been written before now. It covers everything from the JavaScript’s often misunderstood variable scope to the deep interaction with the DOM and everything in between.
This book is an intermediate to advanced book that requires that you have some understanding of our every day web technologies. If you are a web developer, then you are required to know XHTML and JavaScript anyway. This isn’t just some surace level “how-to” book. This covers the deep internals of AJAX and will make you an expert.
Feel free to ignore anyone who claims this book contains spelling errors or other things that in no way change the overall structure of the book and that any thinking person can get around. No ant will ever make a sky scraper fall; it’s irrelevant. This isn’t an English book or a book for novices. It’s a practically graduate-level JavaScript/DOM/AJAX book that requires you to be a thinking person to begin with.
Rating: 5 / 5