Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, 3rd Edition

INTRODUCTION xxxiii

CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS JAVASCRIPT? 1

CHAPTER 2: JAVASCRIPT IN HTML 13

CHAPTER 3: LANGUAGE BASICS 25

CHAPTER 4: VARIABLES, SCOPE, AND MEMORY 85

CHAPTER 5: REFERENCE TYPES 103

CHAPTER 6: OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING 173

CHAPTER 7: FUNCTION EXPRESSIONS 217

CHAPTER 8: THE BROWSER OBJECT MODEL 239

CHAPTER 9: CLIENT DETECTION 271

CHAPTER 10: THE DOCUMENT OBJECT MODEL 309

CHAPTER 11: DOM EXTENSIONS 357

CHAPTER 12: DOM LEVELS 2 AND 3 381

CHAPTER 13: EVENTS 431

CHAPTER 14: SCRIPTING FORMS 511

CHAPTER 15: GRAPHICS WITH CANVAS 551

CHAPTER 16: HTML5 SCRIPTING 591

CHAPTER 17: ERROR HANDLING AND DEBUGGING 607

CHAPTER 18: XML IN JAVASCRIPT 641

CHAPTER 19: ECMASCRIPT FOR XML 671

CHAPTER 20: JSON 691

CHAPTER 21: AJAX AND COMET 701

CHAPTER 22: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES 731

CHAPTER 23: OFFLINE APPLICATIONS AND CLIENT-SIDE STORAGE 765

CHAPTER 24: BEST PRACTICES 801

CHAPTER 25: EMERGING APIS 835

APPENDIX A: ECMASCRIPT HARMONY 857

APPENDIX B: STRICT MODE 877

APPENDIX C: JAVASCRIPT LIBRARIES 885

APPENDIX D: JAVASCRIPT TOOLS 891

INDEX 897