资源名称:Javascript Examples Bible PDF

A common thread running throughout most of my computer-book–writing

career is that I tend to write a book I wish I had had in order to learn a new

technology in the first place. Because I must write that book without the benefit of

existing models, I begin by doing my best to master the technology, and then I write

the book to help other newcomers learn as much as I did, but more quickly and

with less pain, anguish, and confusion. To accomplish that goal, I write as much

content as I feel is necessary to cover the topic in the depth that my readers

require.

When I started on what became the 4th and Gold editions of the Javascript Bible,

there were models to follow (my previous three editions) plus a substantial amount

of brand new material, much of which had not yet been documented anywhere. I

also assumed the responsibility of integrating the frequently conflicting and competing

philosophies of the ways the Javascript language is applied to a variety of

browser brands and versions. Resolving these conflicts is a challenge that I face in

my own programming work with clients, and I take great pleasure in sharing my

solutions and approaches with other programmers floating in the same boat.

As my editor and I began counting the pages I had assembled for these new editions,

we discovered that the number of pages far outstripped the printer’s binding

capabilities, even in a thicker volume made possible by using a hard cover (the

Gold edition). Certainly not all of the words that I had written were so precious that

some of them couldn’t be cut. But we were hundreds of pages beyond capacity. To

cut that much content would have forced exclusion of coverage of language or document

object model vocabulary.

Fortunately, as had been done in previous editions, the plan for the new editions

included Adobe Acrobat versions of the books on the accompanying CD-ROM.

Although a significant compromise to ease of reading, it was possible to move some

of the book’s content to the CD-ROM and leave the most important parts on the

printed page. For the softcover 4th edition, reference chapters covering less-used or

advanced subjects were pulled from print; for the hardcover Gold edition, which

was longer and targeted more for professional scripters, the advanced chapters

were put back into the book (along with 15 additional chapters for that edition),

and the Javascript tutorial was exiled to the CD-ROM.

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