Stuart’s book
I meant to mention this earlier, but Stuart’s book,
DHTML Utopia:
Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM, has been published.
I worked as a technical editor on the book, and I’m proud to have been associated with it. Don’t worry about the hairy title (apparently you have to have DHTML in it or bookshops won’t know where to put it / people won’t know what it’s about), the inside is pure gold.
In their usual style, SitePoint have posted
the first four chapters online for your perusal so you don’t have to take my word for it, you can try it out for yourself.
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Wilson Miner - 3rd June 2005 15:18 - #
I think it is an excellent treatment of the new ways of working JavaScript -- and said so in my review on Amazon.
One of the reviewers seemed overly harsh. I had my own quibbles. As a conventional scripter, I needed a bit more explanation and defense of the supposed superiority of the new ways than I got with the book. However, I learned a lot more from the book than from the largely cryptic examples available on the Web. Object notation and organization, prototyping, closures, etc. result in highly abstracted code that may be superior in some ways but are completely unmaintainable in most corporate development environments because of the lack of people with experience in this.
I wrote a letter to the publishers encouraging them to publish more books like DHTML Utopia but stressed the need to cover the new methods more broadly and deeply.
Brett Merkey - 12th June 2005 22:58 - #