DOM Scripting
With this second edition of the popular DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model comes a modern revision to update best practices and guidelines. It includes full coverage of HTML5 in a new, dedicated chapter, and details on JavaScript libraries and how they can help your scripting. The book provides everything you'll need to start using JavaScript and the Document Object Model to enhance your web pages with client-side dynamic effects and user-controlled animation. It shows how JavaScript, HTML5, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) work together to create usable, standards-compliant web designs. We'll also cover cross-browser compatibility with DOM scripts and how to make sure they degrade gracefully when JavaScript isn't available. DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model focuses on JavaScript for adding dynamic effects and manipulating page structure on the fly using the Document Object Model. You'll start with a crash course in JavaScript and the DOM, then move on to several real-world examples that you'll build from scratch, including dynamic image galleries and dynamic menus. You'll also learn how to manipulate web page styles using the CSS DOM, and create markup on the fly. If you want to create websites that are beautiful, dynamic, accessible, and standards-compliant, this is the book for you!
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What Hacker News says
- Early in my career these books were the most helpful to me as a self taught developer:
* CSS Pocket Reference - Eric Meyer - https://www.amazon.com/CSS-Pocket-Reference-Visual-Presentat...
* XML Schema - Priscilla Walmsley - https://www.amazon.com/Definitive-XML-Schema-Priscilla-Walms...
* DOM Scripting - Jeremy Keith - https://www.amazon.com/DOM-Scripting-Design-JavaScript-Docum...
- My first book on Javascript was "DOM Scripting" by Jeremy Keith. He is still at it, pushing progressive enhancement, making HTML more useful with JS. I love this.
- There is: DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith.
https://www.amazon.com/DOM-Scripting-Design-JavaScript-Docum...
But, nobody will read it. Tree models irrationally scare the shit out of most developers. Most people would rather cut off an arm and work 10x harder for less money than navigate a tree. It’s super weird.
However, if you are a person who isn’t autistically riddled with fears you lie to yourself about understanding the DOM opens almost all doors on the frontend, such as: accessibility, SEO, A/B testing, test automation, performance, and writing durable code quickly without need for a framework.
- DOM Scripting - https://www.amazon.com/DOM-Scripting-Design-JavaScript-Docum...
XML Schema - https://www.amazon.com/Definitive-XML-Schema-Charles-Goldfar...
You don’t have to be a slave to some framework to do frontend web work. You can actually learn how these technologies actually work.
- As a self taught developer there are only a few books I read early in my career that seriously impacted how I write code.
1. XML Schema by Priscilla Walmsley - https://www.amazon.com/Definitive-XML-Schema-Priscilla-Walms...
2. DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith - https://www.amazon.com/DOM-Scripting-Design-JavaScript-Docum...
3. CSS Pocket Reference - Eric Meyer - https://www.amazon.com/CSS-Pocket-Reference-Visual-Presentat...
Most of the developers I have worked with in my career are absolutely terrified by tree structures. They will admit otherwise like some kind of pathological liar, but this is easily exposed and that's so unfortunate. A tree structure is just a data structure like any other and embracing that liberates you from a kind of Stockholm Syndrome.
- https://www.amazon.com/DOM-Scripting-Design-JavaScript-Docum...
DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model by Jeremy Keith
Great book and interacting with the DOM is essential to performance in any kind of browser work. Unfortunately most developers today are completely terrified of the DOM, as in PTSD and need counseling terrified.
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