Beginning JavaScript

INTRODUCTION xix CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO JAVASCRIPT AND THE WEB 1 Introduction to JavaScript 1 Where Do My Scripts Go? 7 Your First Simple JavaScript Program 9 Writing More JavaScript 10 A Brief Look at Browsers and Compatibility Problems 15 Summary 16 CHAPTER 2: DATA TYPES AND VARIABLES 17 Types of Data in JavaScript 18 Variables--Storing Data in Memory 20 Using Data--Calculations and Basic String Manipulation 26 Data Type Conversion 38 Arrays 43 Summary 52 CHAPTER 3: DECISIONS AND LOOPS 55 Decision Making--The if and switch Statements 56 Looping--The for and while Statements 76 Summary 84 CHAPTER 4: FUNCTIONS AND SCOPE 87 Creating Your Own Functions 88 Scope and Lifetime 92 Functions as Values 94 Summary 97 CHAPTER 5: JAVASCRIPT--AN OBJECT?]BASED LANGUAGE 99 Object?]Based Programming 100 JavaScript's Native Object Types 105 Creating Your Own Custom Objects 144 Creating New Types of Objects (Reference Types) 148 Summary 151 CHAPTER 6: STRING MANIPULATION 153 Additional String Methods 154 Regular Expressions 158 The String Object 175 Using the RegExp Object's Constructor 183 Summary 191 CHAPTER 7: DATE, TIME, AND TIMERS 193 World Time 194 Timers in a Web Page 200 Summary 203 CHAPTER 8: PROGRAMMING THE BROWSER 205 Introduction to the Browser's Objects 206 Determining the User's Browser 218 Summary 225 CHAPTER 9: DOM SCRIPTING 229 The Web Standards 231 The Document Object Model 234 Manipulating the DOM 259 Summary 268 CHAPTER 10: EVENTS 271 Types of Events 272 Connecting Code to Events 273 The Standard Event Model 283 Event Handling in Old Versions of Internet Explorer 298 Writing Cross?]Browser Code 307 Native Drag and Drop 317 Summary 333 CHAPTER 11: HTML FORMS: INTERACTING WITH THE USER 335 HTML Forms 336 Traditional Form Object Properties and Methods 338 HTML5 Form Object Properties and Methods 375 Summary 386 CHAPTER 12: JSON 391 XML 392 JSON 393 Summary 400 CHAPTER 13: DATA STORAGE 403 Baking Your First Cookie 404 Creating a Cookie 416 Getting a Cookie's Value 419 Cookie Limitations 424 Cookie Security and IE 425 Web Storage 426 Summary 432 CHAPTER 14: AJAX 435 What Is Ajax? 436 Using the XMLHttpRequest Object 438 Creating a Simple Ajax Module 441 Validating Form Fields with Ajax 444 Things to Watch Out For 453 Summary 462 CHAPTER 15: HTML5 MEDIA 463 A Primer 464 Scripting Media 467 Summary 481 CHAPTER 16: JQUERY 483 Getting jQuery 484 jQuery's API 485 Summary 504 CHAPTER 17: OTHER JAVASCRIPT LIBRARIES 505 Digging into Modernizr 506 Diving into Prototype 515 Delving into MooTools 531 Summary 546 CHAPTER 18: COMMON MISTAKES, DEBUGGING, AND ERROR HANDLING 549 D'oh! I Can't Believe I Just Did That: Some Common Mistakes 550 Error Handling 555 Debugging 563 Summary 583 APPENDIX A: ANSWERS TO EXERCISES 587 APPENDIX B: JAVASCRIPT CORE REFERENCE 653 APPENDIX C: W3C DOM REFERENCE 683 APPENDIX D: LATIN?]1 CHARACTER SET 715 INDEX 723