When we talk about instruments, sometimes the guitar gets all the credit. Of course guitars are great, but an electric guitar on its ownâeven a hollow-bodyâis only so loud. For giving one of the world's favorite instruments its voice, guitar amplifiers deserve a little love too.
This book treats JavaScript as a serious object-oriented language, showing you how to build robust, maintainable, and powerful libraries and applications. Along the way, we cover many of the recent innovations such as AJAX, JSON, and interesting design and coding patterns.
JavaScript contains a standard library of objects, such as Array, Date, and Math, and a core set of language elements such as operators, control structures, and statements. Client-side JavaScript extends the core language by supplying objects to control a browser and its Document Object Model (DOM).