JavaScript update for 12/19/2005
Dec. 19th, 2005 02:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
First, I remembered that although a document has to be saved as text to work in browsers, it needs an .html (or .htm) extension rather than a .txt extension. Duh. Now TextWrangler works fine for me.
Second, I think I've found the book I've been looking for: Beginning JavaScript by Paul Wilton. Amazon reviewers give it 4.5 stars. I found the first edition (2000) in the library, and the 44 pages I've read so far (out of almost 1000) look good. There is a newer edition (2004), but it doesn't look that much better for my needs--the first edition doesn't have some of the outdated things I've been seeing everywhere else, but even the newer edition still has some of them. I may get the next version when it comes out.
Meanwhile, since I'll have to do extra research anyway to make sure I'm following the latest standards, I've decided to use the first edition of this book (which I also just bought online for $1.66 plus shipping). Then I will also use the up-to-date JavaScript Tutorial and try out all my code on various modern browsers.
The book I have been writing is up to 17 pages now, but I don't think I need it. Wilton doesn't explain some of the (few) things I have explained quite as well, but it looks like anything I write would be mostly redundant.
Second, I think I've found the book I've been looking for: Beginning JavaScript by Paul Wilton. Amazon reviewers give it 4.5 stars. I found the first edition (2000) in the library, and the 44 pages I've read so far (out of almost 1000) look good. There is a newer edition (2004), but it doesn't look that much better for my needs--the first edition doesn't have some of the outdated things I've been seeing everywhere else, but even the newer edition still has some of them. I may get the next version when it comes out.
Meanwhile, since I'll have to do extra research anyway to make sure I'm following the latest standards, I've decided to use the first edition of this book (which I also just bought online for $1.66 plus shipping). Then I will also use the up-to-date JavaScript Tutorial and try out all my code on various modern browsers.
The book I have been writing is up to 17 pages now, but I don't think I need it. Wilton doesn't explain some of the (few) things I have explained quite as well, but it looks like anything I write would be mostly redundant.