FOREWORD BY DAVE SHEA

"JavaScript? No way. It's inaccessible, you know. Relying on it will make your site unusable, too. It's the root of many an evil pop-up window. I mean, it probably even kicked your dog when no one was looking."

Or so I thought...

Are you like me, a web designer or developer who has avoided JavaScript on principle? There are a lot of us out there, and no wonder. With so many examples of bad scripting living on in outdated web tutorials from the height of the dot-com era, the overwhelming resistance to using it is no large surprise.

Thankfully, there are people out there like Jeremy Keith working to point us back in the right direction. In this book, he shows us that, hey, it's not as bad as all that. When used properly, ...

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