Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax, Second Edition

Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax is an essential resource for modern JavaScript programming. This completely updated second edition covers everything you need to know to get up-to-speed with JavaScript development and add dynamic enhancements to web pages, right from the basics. As well as focusing on client-side JavaScript, you will also learn how to work with the Browser Object Model, the Document Object Model (DOM), how to use XML and JSON as well as communicate with service side scripts such as PHP. Find out how to:

• Construct good JavaScript syntax following modern coding practices
• Use JavaScript to communicate with the server and retrieve data
• Dynamically manipulate markup, validate forms and deal with images
• Debug applications using features inside the browser

JavaScript is one of the most important technologies on the web. It provides the means to add dynamic functionality to your web pages and serves as the backbone of Ajax-style web development. Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax will take you from being a JavaScript novice to work freely with this important technology - begin your JavaScript journey today!

About the Authors

RussFerguson is a freelance developer and instructor in the New York City area. His interest in computers goes back to Atari Basic, CompuServe and BBS systems in the mid 1980’s. For over 10 years he has been fortunate to teach at Pratt Institute, where subjects have been as diverse as the student body. Working in New York has given him the opportunity to work with a diverse group companies who’s projects ranged from, developing real-time chat/video applications for start-up’s to developing and managing, content management systems for established Media and Advertising agencies like MTV and DC Comics.

Christian Heilmann grew up in Germany and, after a year working with people with disabilities through the Red Cross, he spent a year as a radio producer. Beginning in 1997, he worked for several agencies in Munich as a web developer. In 2000, he moved to the U.S. to work for eToys and, after the dot-com crash, he moved to the U.K., where he currently works as a lead developer for Agilisys. He publishes an almost-daily blog at hwait-till-i.com and runs an article repository at icant.co.uk. He is a member of the Web Standards Project's DOM Scripting Task Force.