What Is JavaScript / Nicholas C Zakas -- JavaScript in HTML / Nicholas C Zakas -- Language Basics / Nicholas C Zakas -- Variables, Scope, and Memory / Nicholas C Zakas -- Reference Types / Nicholas C Zakas -- Object-Oriented Programming / Nicholas C Zakas -- Function Expressions / Nicholas C Zakas -- The Browser Object Model / Nicholas C Zakas -- Client Detection / Nicholas C Zakas -- The Document Object Model / Nicholas C Zakas -- DOM Extensions / Nicholas C Zakas -- DOM Levels 2 and 3 / Nicholas C Zakas -- Events / Nicholas C Zakas -- Scripting Forms / Nicholas C Zakas -- Graphics with Canvas / Nicholas C Zakas -- HTML5 Scripting / Nicholas C Zakas -- Error Handling and Debugging / Nicholas C Zakas -- XML in JavaScript / Nicholas C Zakas -- ECMAScript for XML / Nicholas C Zakas -- JSON / Nicholas C Zakas -- Ajax and Comet / Nicholas C Zakas -- Advanced Techniques / Nicholas C Zakas -- Offline Applications and Client-Side Storage / Nicholas C Zakas -- Best Practices / Nicholas C Zakas -- Emerging APIs / Nicholas C Zakas -- A: ECMAScript Harmony -- B: Strict Mode -- C: JavaScript Libraries -- D: JavaScript Tools.

"A significant update to a bestselling JavaScript book. As the key scripting language for the web, JavaScript is supported by every modern web browser and allows developers to create client-side scripts that take advantage of features such as animating the canvas tag and enabling client-side storage and application caches. After an in-depth introduction to the JavaScript language, this updated edition of a bestseller progresses to break down how JavaScript is applied for web development using the latest web development technologies. Veteran author and JavaScript guru Nicholas Zakas shows how JavaScript works with the new HTML5 as well as other significant advances in web development as it relates to JavaScript"--Provided by publisher.

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