JavaScript Cookbook

I wrote my first book on javascript 15 years ago, and had to scramble just to find enough material to fill a book. With the javascript Cookbook, I had to choose among hundreds of uses to determine what to include. After all these years of watching javascript grow, I am still surprised at how far-reaching the use of javascript has become. In my opinion, there is no more useful programming language or development tool. About the only technology with wider use is HTML.

This book on javascript is for those who have dabbled with javascript and wish to try out new techniques, or increase their grasp of both fundamentals and advanced features of javascript. Along the way, I"ll demonstrate how to:

• Work with the javascript objects, such as String, Array, Number, and Math
• Create reusable objects
• Query and create new elements in the Document Object Model (DOM)
• Use the new Selectors API for efficient and targeted querying
• Use javascript with new HTML5 technologies, such as the new media elements, video and audio
• Create interactive applications
• Manage your web page space
• Store data in various ways, from the simple to the complex
• Use javascript with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and the canvas element
• Work with some of the interesting data structures, like Microformats and RDFa
• Package your library for others to use, as well as use other libraries in your applications
• Ensure your javascript applications are accessible through the use of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)
• Work in environments other than the typical desktop browser, such as creating mobile phone web applications, or extending Photoshop with new behaviors
• Use and create jQuery plug-ins
• Develop Ajax applications.
• Debug your applications using your browser"s debugger
• Work with the new HTML5 drag-and-drop
• Communicate using the new HTML5 cross-documentation techniques
• Implement concurrent programming with Web Workers
• Use the File API to access a desktop file directly in client-side javascript

It"s not a complete encyclopedia of javascript use today—no one book can cover all there is to cover. But hopefully, you"ll come away with an appreciation of all you can do with javascript.

Bon appetit!

Year: 2010
Author: Shelley Powers
Publisher: O Reilly Media ’, Inc.
ISBN: 978-0-596-80613-2
Language: AnglijskijFormat: PDF
Quality: initially computer (eBook)
Number of pages: 554

Size: 9.22 Mb

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