JavaScript Bible, Gold Edition part 2. This book will bring programmers and non-technical professionals, including casual programmers and scripters, painlessly up to speed on all aspects of mastering JavaScript. Key topics include programming fundamentals, JavaScript language elements and how to use them effectively, and how to easily and efficiently add powerful new functionality to HTML documents and Java applets. | x JavaScript Bible Gold Edition At first I thought JavaScript would most often find use in validating input to HTML forms. But before long I was surprised to see how many Web designers devised compelling applications by way of script-generated HTML and JavaScript objects. It became clear from user demonstration and feedback that Web designers sought to build significant applications quickly and effectively with just a few images HTML and JavaScript. Eventually they demanded that the browser support what is now known as Dynamic HTML one fun link http . As legions of Web authors embraced the authoring power of JavaScript they in turn demonstrated the crucial advantages of a scripting environment over old-school application development. Not only were the HTML and JavaScript languages comparatively easy to use but development did not require the programming expertise needed to light all pixels and handle all events as in a big traditional application. The primacy of JavaScript on the Web today vindicates our early belief in the value of a scripting language for HTML authors. By keeping the pixel-lighting bar low HTML with images has made Web designers out of millions of people. By keeping the event-handling bar low JavaScript has helped many thousands of those designers become programmers. Perhaps the ultimate example of Web development s convergence with application development is the Mozilla browser wherein all of the user-interface and even some custom widgets and modular components are implemented entirely using JavaScript Cascading Style Sheets CSS custom XML-based markup languages and images. JavaScript is also a general language useful apart from HTML and XML. It has been embedded in servers authoring tools browser plug-ins and other kinds of browsers for such things as 3D graphical worlds . Its international standard ECMA-262 ISO 16262 has advanced to a Third Edition. But compared with languages such as Perl and even Java it is still .
