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Re: [sheflug] Javascript book recommendation

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 14:08 +0100, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 13:39 +0100, Seb James wrote:
> > Has anyone got a recommendation for a good Javascript book?
> 
> I can tell you what to avoid:
> 
>       * books which think HTML tags should be CAPITALISED. e.g.,
>         <HEAD><TITLE>My first javascript</TITLE></HEAD>;
>       * anything with screenshots of Navigator 4 in it;
>       * anything on its fourth (or more) edition;

Agreed with the first two points. I'm interested to know why you believe
that several editions is a bad thing? "They just can't get the book
right because they have a team of authors each of whom writes a chapter
of the book without reading any of the other chapters" perhaps..

> 
> If you can, avoid anything which generates content on a webpage using
> document.write().
> 
> I suspect even those three requirements and a recommendation will filter
> out 95% of books :-/

Thanks for the tips.

Seb

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