JavaScript: The Good Parts

"Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined. This authoritative book scrapes away these bad features to reveal a subset of JavaScript that's more reliable, readable, and maintainable than the language as a wholea subset you can use to create truly extensible and efficient code. JavaScript expert many people in the development community, author Douglas Crockford identifies the abundance of good ideas that make JavaScript an outstanding object-oriented programming language-ideas such as functions, loose typing, dynamic objects, and an expressive object literal notation. Unfortunately, these good ideas are mixed in with bad and downright awful ideas, like a programming model based on global variables."When Java applets failed, JavaScript became the language of the Web default, making its popularity almost completely independent of its qualities as a programming language. In including: Syntax Objects Functions Inheritance Arrays Regular expressions Methods Style Beautiful features "margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"The real beauty? As you move ahead with the subset of JavaScript that this book presents, you'll also sidestep the need to