This is a new kind of JavaScript book. It's not cut'n'paste it's not a reference and it's not
an exhaustive investigation of the JavaScript language. It is about client-side web focused
and task-oriented JavaScript. JavaScript is a core skill for web professionals and as every
web professional knows client-side JavaScript can produce all sorts of glitches and bugs.
'Practical JavaScript for the Usable Web' takes a two pronged approach to learning the
JavaScript that you need to get your work done: teaching the core client-side JavaScript that
you need to incorporate usable interactivity into your web applications including many short
functional scripts and building up a complete application with shopping cart functionality.
When you have finished working with this book you'll have a thorough grounding in Client-side
JavaScript and be able to construct your own client-side functionality quickly easily and
without falling into any of the usability traps that this technology leaves wide open. This
book covers: DHTML for IE4 and NN4 browsers and the Dom for the latest browsers Usability
techniques Working scripts that can be incorporated into your web applications immediately
Step-by-step breakdown of JavaScript shopping cart functionality Advanced Data Validation
Techniques Book Info Covers DHTML for IE4 and NN4 browsers and the Dom for the latest
browsers. Discusses working scripts that can be incorporated into your web applications
immediately. Provides advanced data validation techniques. From the Publisher This is for
readers who are either learning JavaScript from scratch or who have a little experience -
perhaps with DreamWeaver behaviors or incorporating scripts into their pages. It assumes a
though understanding of HTML and a little CSS experience. About the Author After an initial
stint as a Visual Basic applications programmer at the Ministry of Defence in the UK Paul
Wilton found himself pulled into theNet. He is currently working freelance and is busy trying
to piece together the Microsoft .Net jigsaw. Paul's main skills are in developing web front
ends using DHTML JavaScript VBScript and Visual Basic and back-end solutions with ASP
Visual Basic and SQL Server. Stephen Williams recently co-founded Chimera Digital Ltd a
company that brings together expertise in the fields of education video production and web
technologies and produces content packages suitable for business in training promotion
marketing and more. Prior to this he worked for Edison Interactive where he was the lead
Vignette developer for their Switch2 entertainment portal web site. His interests in artificial
life lead him from his PhD in Molecular Microbiology at the University of Birmingham into
object-oriented programming and the Internet. Sing Li is an active author consultant and
entrepreneur. He has written for popular technical journals and is the creator of the Internet
Global Phone one of the very first Internet phones available. His wide-ranging consulting
expertise spans Internet and Intranet systems design distributed architectures web services
embedded systems real-time technologies and cross-platform software design. He also
participates in the Jini and Jxta communities.
