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In Pragmatic Guide to JavaScript, Christophe Porteneuve helps get you up to speed quickly and painlessly with the 35 key JavaScript tasks you need to know.The task-oriented two-page spreads get you up and running fast. The left pages explain the underlying implementation for each task, and the right pages contain code snippets for that task, along with cross-references to related tasks.You'll learn essential JavaScript tasks in a framework-agnostic way. Learn how to manipulate the DOM and CSS, and how to use event handling and timers. You'll discover JavaScript tricks for user interface functionality: tooltips, lightboxes, image processing, infinite scrolling, and more. You'll work with forms for receiving and validating input and explore the client-server relationship with cookies, JSON, and Ajax, as well as mashups with Twitter, Flickr, and geo-related APIs. We round it off with a cheat sheet that gives you JavaScript at a glance.Christophe says, "Once the province of half-baked implementations and useless scrolling messages, JavaScript has become a world-class, dynamic, object-oriented language with super-fast implementations on the client and server sides. If you've been paying

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Author
Christophe Porteneuve, [edited by David McClintock]
Publisher
Pragmatic Bookshelf
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9781934356678
Category
reference
Subjects
Computer Science, Reference, Web Development
Rating
2.9 / 5 (30 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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