Editorial Reviews:
A book about the most widely-used power tool on the World Wide Web, Guide to JavaScript is an excellent resource that teaches how to implement image rollovers and customize pages for users or browsers among hundreds of other tasks. With its focus on the limitations and capabilities of JavaScript, readers will know after using this resource whether and when JavaScript is the right tool for the right job, as well as when real-world solutions are necessary to achieve the desired results. Topics include basic programming capabilities, controlling script execution, functions and their use, working with strings and manipulating textual input, regular expressions, pattern matching, and using, pre-caching, and swapping images with JavaScript. An excellent resource for web designers, web developers, internet developers, internet programmers, and web programmers.
Customer Reviews:
 Why the Web Guru series is a failure
I picked up this book at the library as an introduction to Javascript. I am not new to web design and programming, but I never bothered to use Javascript much before recently. The book is tailored to those who are completely new to Javascript and little to no knowledge of HTML. If you're expecting an in-depth guide to the subject, look elsewhere. I appreciate the easy-to-read nature of the writing and simplicity of the subject, however, I expected this book to be much cheaper than its list price. I was shocked to see that it is listed as $77. In no way is the book actually worth that. At that price, I would expect a 1200+ page, in-depth reference to Javascript. No wonder I had never heard of the Web Guru series before this. If they really wanted this book to sell (and this goes to all computer book publishers), they should have printed it on cheaper paper. There really is no need for glossy paper to be used all the time.
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