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JavaScript Pocket Reference
Author:  David Flanagan
Publisher:  O'Reilly
Pub. Date:  Oct 1, 1998
Edition:  1st edition
Binding:  Paperback
Pages:  94
ISBN:  1565925211
ISBN-13:  9781565925212
List Price:  9.95 USD
Amazon Sales Rank:  1,025,380
Bn.com Sales Rank:  28,872
Amazon UK Sales Rank:  497,246
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Editorial Reviews (Courtesy of Amazon.com)

Product Description
JavaScript is a powerful scripting language that can be embedded directly in HTML. It allows you to create dynamic, interactive Web-based applications that run completely within a Web browser. The JavaScript Pocket Reference is a companion volume to JavaScript: The Definitive Guide. This small book, covering JavaScript 1.2, is a handy reference guide to this popular language for Web development. It provides a complete overview of the core JavaScript language and contains summaries of both core and client-side objects, methods, and properties.
Amazon.com Review
At 4.5 by 7 inches in size and only 89 pages long, the aptly named JavaScript Pocket Reference will really almost fit in your pocket. Use this guide as a companion to turn to when you're in doubt about that function syntax or you're drawing a blank on the JavaScript object model.

The book concisely packs together the syntax of the scripting language, including summaries of expression and statement style. The real meat of the tiny title is an alphabetical listing of JavaScript objects, along with their associated methods, properties, and events. One nice feature of this section is the attention to the varying support between Microsoft and Netscape browser versions. However, this listing is useful only if you know what object you want to work with. Missing from the reference is a solutions-based reference to let you refresh your memory about how to do a particular task, such as validate a form field or roll over a graphic when the user moves the mouse.

One drawback is the book's illustration of the object model--done only in a small diagram. This is a bit of a shame since this is one of the key topics most developers need help with. If you're rather familiar with JavaScript, this pocket reference will be helpful. New coders, however, will likely find it insufficient. --Stephen W. Plain

Table of Contents (Courtesy of Barnes & Noble.com)

Versions of JavaScript
JavaScript Syntax
Variables
Data Types
Expressions and Operators
Statements
Regular Expressions
JavaScript in HTML
Client-side Object Hierarchy
Windows and Frames
Forms
Events
JavaScript Security Restrictions
Global Properties
Global Functions
Alphabetical Object Reference