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Mastering JavaScript and JScript | 
 enlarge | Author: James Jaworski
Publisher: Sybex
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 1507369
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 895
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.5 x 2.4
ISBN: 0782124925
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2762
UPC: 025211224922
EAN: 9780782124927
ASIN: 0782124925
Publication Date: April 23, 1999
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Product Description
Make Your Web Site Dynamic
But how? Mastering JavaScript and JScript teaches you everything you need to know about these popular scripting languages to transform any Web site into a dynamic, interactive, practical application. For those without programming knowledge, it starts at the beginning: you'll learn basic concepts and skills and quickly go on to tackle the tasks you want to accomplish. For experienced programmers, it offers plenty of advanced instruction. Jaworski, a scripting expert, shares insights and techniques that will see you through the most challenging projects.
Coverage includes:
* Writing client-side JavaScript and JScript
* Ensuring that your scripts work with IE and Navigator
* Writing server-side JavaScript
* Writing LiveWire applications
* Integrating JScript with Active Server Pages
* Using JavaScript to connect to databases
* Using JavaScript with Java applets
* Using JScript with ActiveX
* Using Windows Scripting Host
* Handling events
* Working with objects
* Communicating with plug-ins
* Processing forms
* Using hidden fields and cookies
* Creating Web page widgets
* Developing search tools
* Programming games
* Interfacing with CGI programs
* Working with style sheets and DHTML
* Securing your scripts
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 A handy book to have for Web Developers. December 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are a beginning web developer, this book is for you. It will help you design great web pages with little effort. A must have.
 No effort went into making this book August 2, 2001
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a truly awful book. It is a classic example of some joker throwing some stuff down on paper and trying to sell it. Despite its large size, it contains very little information. The book mostly consists of lengthy, unhelpful examples printed in a large font to take up space. I ended up returning it and getting the Beginning Javascript book from the Programmer to Programmer series, and it's great. Don't waste your money on this one, though.
A crapper May 23, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Some of the scripts are useful i na canned way and if you know programming you can perhaps tweak them to your use. But the book does little to help you learn javascript... just example programs and screens.. no teaching of the why's & how's. There are better references on the web for free.
JavaScript & JScript April 10, 2001
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Too much JavaScript, not enough JScript. I was hoping that this book would serve as a JScript reference based on the title but there was only one chapter on serverside JScripting. If I had actually paid for it, I would be ...
Worst book I ever bought April 26, 2000
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought Mastering Javascript and Jscript as a supplement to another book Javascript Goodies. I wanted a good, comprehensive reference. The same day I got Mastering Javasript and Jscript, however, I also wanted to send it back. Wish I had. It's an absolutely useless book. You go to look something up, and all it does is give you a table of items with what you're looking up included in the table. It never tells you what the item is or how to use it--basically all it does is confirm that the item is there in the overall javascript or jscript spec. So, I have to go back to the first book to find this out, or go out onto the internet. The last thing I checked was using jscript to connect to a database via Asp technology. It doesn't even give you a hint. It covers this important subject with just one short paragraph. In it, it tells you to go to a different chapter covering a different technology, LiveWire. It says that the operation to accomplish this is essentially the same as with Livewire, "only the object names, methods and syntax are changed". So it's the same but it's completely different. A person would have to plod through all the information on LiveWire to find this particular info; basically, he'd have to learn LiveWire just to do a simple thing like connect up a database via asp. After all his/her effort, moreover, he'd still have no guarantee that he'd be able to accomplish what he wants because LiveWire and asp are different, so he'd have to rely on guesswork. Or, he'd have to do like I'm doing, look out onto the internet.No information whatsoever was given on how to do this probably simple thing using asp. That's typical of this book--all it ever does is confirm that something is there. (Want to know about document.write? Well, it exists. The end.) It's a complete waste of money and of space. It doesn't even rate one half a star.
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