Title:
JavaScript : the definitive guide
Author:
Flanagan, David.
ISBN:
9780596805524
Personal Author:
Edition:
6th ed.
Publication Information:
Beijing ; Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly, 2011.
Physical Description:
xvi, 1078 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
General Note:
"Covers ECMAScript 5 & HTML5"--Cover.
Includes index.
Contents:
Introduction to JavaScript -- Core JavaScript. Lexical structure ; Types, values, and variables ; Expressions and operators ; Statements ; Objects ; Arrays ; Functions ; Classes and modules ; Pattern matching with regular expressions ; JavaScript subsets and extensions ; Server-side JavaScript -- Client-side JavaScript. JavaScript in web browsers ; The window object ; Scripting documents ; Scripting CSS ; Handling events ; Scripted HTTP ; The jQuery library ; Client-side storage ; Scripted media and graphics ; HTML5 APIs -- Core JavaScript reference -- Client-side JavaScript reference.
Abstract:
A revised and updated edition offers comprehensive coverage of ECMAScript 5 (the new JavaScript language standard) and also the new APIs introduced in HTML5, with chapters on functions and classes completely rewritten and updated to match current best practices and a new chapter on language extensions and subsets.