Pro JavaScript Techniques is the ultimate JavaScript book for the modern web developer. It provides everything you need to know about modern JavaScript, and shows what JavaScript can do for your web sites. This book doesnt waste any time looking at things you already know, like basic syntax and structures. Expert web developer and author John Resig concentrates on fundamental, vital topicswhat modern JavaScripting is (and isnt), the current state of browser support, and pitf (more…)

Embracing jQuery: User Experience Design is your complete guide to building modern dynamic web sites using jQuery, the extremely popular lightweight and efficient JavaScript library. As you’d expect, this book provides a thorough explanation of jQuery’s syntax and grammar, and explains how to put together a wide range of popular effects and animations that you can use to add jQuery interactivity to your web sites. The book then goes further. Combining the skills of a web (more…)

jQuery’s popularity in the Ruby on Rails community has been growing in recent months. jQuery, with its unobtrusive nature, has got developers thinking in ways that they haven’t done before. jQuery is doing for the implementation of JavaScript what CSS did for the old school table layouts. Ruby on Rails, with its convention over configuration and full stack, makes it extremely simple (and secure) to get a professional web application up and running. Practical Rails wit (more…)

JavaScript is essential for creating modern, interactive Web sites. But, unlike HTML and CSS, JavaScript is a true programming language with complex rules that are challenging for most Web designers to learn. In JavaScript: The Missing Manual, bestselling author David McFarland teaches you how to use JavaScript in sophisticated ways — even if you have little or no programming experience. In a clear, entertaining way, the book starts out by teaching you how to build a basic Java (more…)

Putting jQuery, AJAX, and JavaScript effects into your Drupal 6 modules and themes Learn about JavaScript support in Drupal 6 Packed with example code ready for you to use Harness the popular jQuery library to enhance your Drupal sites Make the most of Drupal’s built-in JavaScript librariesIn Detail JavaScript: It’s not just for calculators and image rollovers. Drupal 6 is loaded with new features, and not all of them are necessarily implemented in PHP. This unique book, (more…)