Re: [sheflug] Javascript book recommendation

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 14:55 +0100, Seb James wrote:
> 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..

No, I'm not quite that cynical :)

The "problem" with Javascript (and I personally think it's a great
language) is that people have been writing bad Javascript since the web
started. If "Dazzling Javascript" is in it's seventh edition, that tells
me that the book was initially written for IE4 or something, and unless
they've updated the whole thing (read: thrown the original content away
and completely rewritten it), it's likely to be written in the Internet
equivalent of sanskrit Javascript, and certainly not worth learning.

I imagine such a book would fail my other rules anyway, though.

Cheers,

Alex.


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