JavaScript and Ajax for the Web, Sixth Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Posted by tripwire45 on Nov 21, 2006 11:50 PM EDT
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This morning, I accidentally put my contact lenses in wrong (left in right eye, right in left eye) and when I got in my car to drive to work, I thought I was going blind. I quickly realized my mistake and fixed it when I got to my destination. My little misadventure is relevant because I got a similar feeling when I tried to read "JavaScript and Ajax for the Web". It's probably a consequence of the series format (and so the writers can hardly be faulted...blame the publishers instead) and as a result, I found it pretty hard to read this book let alone learn from it.

The book is laid out with the graphics in the left-hand column and the text in the right-hand column of the page (there are a few exceptions). Even when there are no graphics on the page, all of the text is compressed to the right with the left side of the page remaining completely blank. I don't use web browsers and text editors that are longer than they are wide so all of the sample code had a completely unnatural appearance. Worse, lines of code that should have remained unbroken had to be broken to accommodate the page format. Among programmers, this is considered a "no-no".



Nevertheless, I continued to pursue reading "JavaScript & AJAX" in the hope that the content would make up for it all. In fact, the JavaScript content is accurate and well presented in terms of the writing style. While the book assumes you have some familiarity with HTML, it is written for the JavaScript newbie and I could see that the actual text content would go a long way to teaching this language to the reader.

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