Re: Witango-Talk: [OT} JavaScript Book Recommendation

[Sri Amudhanar]

Books are good for understanding how Javascript works. Its like knowing 
how C/C++ works, but programming for Windows GUI is very different from 
programming for Mac GUI. In the end you need access to the internal 
structure of the browser screen. Its like, even though you know all of 
Witango DOM metatags very well, you can't really do to much with an XML 
document unless you what its parts are, what it is and what it does. It 
could be a database, HTML document, a TAF, whatever.
Similarly, each browser exposes its API (including the screen interface) 
in a DOM fashion, that is easy to manipulate and create powerful 
cross-browser features using Javascript. Without the DOM documentation 
of the browser, you never know why the sample code works and how they 
got those unexpected pieces in there. You can only do that by 
downloading the DOM structure of (usually on the free on developer 
sites) documentation of each browser you want to support. They change 
quite frequently as new capabilities are added to the browsers between 
versions. Very satisfying. Like getting the genetic code to the browser! 
Sorry, I don't have the links handy, but they are easy to find.

Sri Amudhanar
Maxys Corporation
703 729 0600
Dan Stein wrote:

I've always mostly winged it on JavaScript using the code from free sites
making sense of it and adding it to my sites.
I am ready to get a better understanding and wanted to know what books
people have found MOST useful. What is the most worn out book on the
bookshelf.
Thanks

Dan
 



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