Re: [sheflug] Javascript book recommendation

[Seb James <seb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 15:43 +0100, Alex Hudson wrote:
> 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.

This book looks promising:

http://domscripting.com/book/


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