Preface
A couple of years ago, JavaScript was generally looked down on as something that one did when one couldn’t be bothered doing proper programming. The advent of Ajax has given the language a smart new set of clothes, and it’s almost respectable to describe oneself as a JavaScript programmer. I’ve followed this transition myself, from doing JavaScript here and there because I had to, to figuring out some fairly neat tricks that just couldn’t be accomplished any other way.
I even started to dig into the language itself, and was pleasantly surprised to find out that, although it wasn’t really that much like Java at all, it had a style and logic of its own. I got my head around prototype chains and started writing JavaScript objects. I was ...
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