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File Size: 5030 KBPrint Length: 1096 pagesSimultaneous Device Usage: UnlimitedPublisher: O’Reilly Media; 6 edition (April 18, 2011)Publication Date: April 18, 2011 Sold by:  Digital Services, Inc. Language: EnglishID: B004XQX4K0Text-to-Speech: Enabled X-Ray: Enabled Word Wise: Not EnabledLending: Not Enabled Enhanced Typesetting: Not Enabled Best Sellers Rank: #55,479 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store) #44 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Web Programming > JavaScript #64 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Software Design, Testing & Engineering > Object-Oriented Design #75 in Books > Computers & Technology > Web Development & Design > Web Design
Readers should note that most of the reviews of this book refer to older editions which are — due to the rapid evolution of javascript — completely different books. I’ve spent a considerable amount of time the last few months reading the 6th edition of this book and have a number of complaints. But first, the kudos: this book is more comprehensive than any other javascript reference.

Complaints:
– the text is frequently non-linear in the sense that author will talk about undefined feature X, stating that feature X will be explained a couple of chapters later. Sometimes this is a good way to gradually introduce concepts, but it’s used too much here. Some critics of this book have suggested you need to know javascript before reading this book, this might be why.

– Almost every concept is followed with the caveat "but this feature doesn’t work in Internet Explorer prior to version Z. For that you have to use this entirely different function f". This makes the text unnecessarily confusing. How about talking about *standard* ECMAscript and relegating the caveats to end of chapter notes, perhaps adding a superscript to alert the reader about version incompatibilities?

– The examples are poor — most show how to re-implement javascript 5 functions in javascript 3, or how to get a standard function to work in Internet Explorer 8. Who cares? This is why we have jQuery and Dojo — in order not to worry about stuff like this. A few examples like this would provide welcome insight into dealing with compatibility issues, but in this case my eyes started to glaze over after a few hundred pages.

Case study: Chapter 17, "Handling Events".
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide is not just a complete reference of the language, like O’Reilly’s other ‘thick books,’ but also provides a deep dive into JavaScript development. However, if you’re just starting out and will be using one of the various libraries (like jQuery), this book may not (yet) be for you.

First, the sixth edition is the first I’ve read, so I can’t speak to any changes. Instead, my review is focused on the book as a first-timer reader to the ‘series.’

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide is broken up into four parts; Core JavaScript, Client-Side JavaScript, the Core JavaScript Reference, and the Client-Side Reference. If you’ve ever picked up one of O’Reilly’s other reference books, like Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, you know about what to expect from those last two parts – a deep reference to the language.

The first two parts, however, are a ‘deep dive’ into the actual language itself. Unlike a mere reference book, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide actually teaches you how to develop in JavaScript, starting at the core fundamentals, and working your way up to more advanced topics.

Part of the ‘deep dive’ aspect also includes following best practices, making numerous references to Douglas Crockford’s JavaScript: The Good Parts throughout the first part of the book, which is about 30% of the book. Alone, the first part of the book provides an excellent, near-complete, tutorial on the language.

Historical information is also included, which I found to be very interesting when it came up, as well as implementation-specific functionality, that has limited use at this time (and as such, I personally found it distracting, and began skimming over later instances, but it’s still nice that it’s provided).

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