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Re: JavaScript

LUDWIK KOWALSKI wrote:

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 14:09:49 -0500
From: forinas@indiana.edu (kyle forinash)
Subject: Re: JavaScripting

Can you (or anyone else) recommend a good JavaScript book?

In comparison with the True Basic Reference Manual (by Kemeny and
Kurtz) all JS books I browsed are bad. Perhaps the evolving nature
of JavaScript has something to do with it. The text I am using is:

I kind of liked Javascript for Dummies, but I tend to agree. The problem
with Javascript is that it is evolving, but unlike standard html where a
browser simply recognizes that it doesn't know a given tag - and hence
ignores it - old browsers simply go beserk and generate umpteen error
messages when running new Javascript pages. Makes it hardly worth even
turning it on unless you are running the latest beta test versions of the
browsers (in which case you've got lots of other troubles). I use
Javascript sparingly, and always test it against Netscape 2.02


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