Complete Idiot’s Guide to JavaScript

Weiss A.

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Table of contents :
Local Disk……Page 0
Index……Page 1
Coffee? In My Computer? I Prefer Decaf………Page 3
Navigator and Explorer: The World Wide Web on a Caffeine High……Page 8
Tag… You’re It!……Page 12
Off and Running — with Someone Else’s Help……Page 17
Objects, Names and Literals……Page 23
Operators and Expressions……Page 30
Making a Statement……Page 39
Conjunction Junction, What’s a Function?……Page 51
An Eye on Events……Page 62
How much is that Object in the Window?……Page 73
Mapping and Tracking: Locations and Histories……Page 83
The Document Shuffle……Page 91
Fiddling with Forms and Emulating Events……Page 99
Navigating with Navigator……Page 109
Array of Organization……Page 115
Image-ine That!……Page 126
Care for a Cookie?……Page 135
Example 1: Hello World……Page 146
Example 2: Random Chatter……Page 153
Example 3: Which Way do we go?……Page 159
Example 4: Bank Loan Calculator……Page 162
Example 5: Black Jack……Page 174
Example 6: Creating an eZine……Page 187
Example 7: Welcome Back……Page 198
What to do, when it won’t work: Debugging your Scripts……Page 205
Ideas……Page 213
Stepping up to Straight Java……Page 218
Appendix A: The Complete Overview……Page 228
Appendix B: Speak like Greek, the complete Archive……Page 246