Publisher's Synopsis
This title is about client-side, web focused, and task-oriented JavaScript. JavaScript is a core skill for web professionals, and as every web professional knows, client-side JavaScript can produce all sorts of glitches and bugs. "Practical JavaScript for the Usable Web" takes a two pronged approach to learning the JavaScript that you need to get your work done: teaching the core client-side JavaScript that you need to incorporate usable interactivity into your web applications, including many short functional scripts, and building up a complete application with shopping cart functionality.;When you have finished working with this book, you should have a thorough grounding in Client-side JavaScript, and be able to construct your own client-side functionality quickly, easily, and without falling into any of the usability traps that this technology leaves wide open.;This book covers: DHTML for IE4 and NN4 browsers, and the Dom for the latest browsers; usability techniques; working scripts that can be incorporated into your web applications immediately; step-by-step breakdown of JavaScript shopping cart functionality; and advanced data validation techniques.
