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JavaScript Application Cookbook


Product Description
JavaScript Application Cookbook literally hands the Webmaster a set of ready-to-go, client-side JavaScript applications with thorough documentation to help them understand and extend the applications. By providing such a set of applications, JavaScript Application Cookbook allows Webmasters to immediately add extra functionality to their Web sites. This book targets readers with two different skill sets. The primary target is JavaScript-knowledgeable Webmasters… More >>

JavaScript Application Cookbook

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  1. #1 by Lionel Hutz on July 4, 2010 - 11:59 pm

    If you liked O’Reilly’s PERL Cookbook, AVOID this book. Instead of helping you to code, this book dishes up complete applications which are better handled using PERL (or any other language) for CGIs.

    Somehow, the editor(s) at O’Reilly missed the basic issue:

    JavaScript isn’t a language, but a shoehorn attempt at providing browser-side programming capabilities that may blow up easily, save for simple edit checks (including math operations).

    JS requires enabled and capable browsers, and even then scripts can be problematical between browser versions and browser vendors. If you’ve worked in JS, you know the frustration when a property or method in one object isn’t available in a seemingly similar object. More often calls between programmers mucking about in JS are along the lines of “How do you do ‘x’ in JS?” and not “How do you develop a website in JS?” (The answer to the later would be “Are you out of your @#!*$ mind! “)

    Save your $$ and maybe O’Reilly may soon provide a robust JS cookbook.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  2. #2 by James on July 5, 2010 - 12:35 am

    I thought this book would be the Javascript equivalent of the Perl Cookbook, but not even close. This book just doesn’t serve the same purpose. It’s not a bad book, but it needs to be simplified into categories. Us programmers don’t need to have our hands held while we code stuff, we just need help here and there and that’s what made the Perl Cookbook so good. This book just describes whole projects. Screw that.

    Believe it or not, I think JavaScript for Dummies is still king for a reference when being stuck on something. Either that or rack your own brain and solve it yourself. :-)
    Rating: 3 / 5

  3. #3 by Anonymous on July 5, 2010 - 1:14 am

    I too expected something modeled after The Perl Cookbook, which provides coded solutions to common problems. While the JavaScript Application Cookbook (“Application” wasn’t in the title when I preordered it!) does show the power of JavaScript as a programming language, it is not, in my view, nearly as useful as The Perl Cookbook, so if that’s what you were looking for, you’ll probably be disappointed as well.
    Rating: 2 / 5

  4. #4 by Anonymous on July 5, 2010 - 3:49 am

    I purchased this book and downloaded the sample code from O’reilly. I then applied the errata from the o’reilly site.

    The first example does not work in either netscape communicator 4.72 or ie 5.0. It is full of script errors. This really irritates me. I don’t mind doing a little debugging but this is ridiculous.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  5. #5 by kiwi19808 on July 5, 2010 - 5:52 am

    I bought this book about 3 weeks ago to help with my newest assignment at work. WOW! IT works wonders with all good browsers (sorry, Netscape isn’t in this section).

    The information presented in this book is concise and logical. The examples are superior to anything else I’ve ever seen.
    Rating: 4 / 5