Preface
When I started writing Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja years ago, in early 2008, I saw a real need: there were no books providing in-depth coverage of the most important parts of the JavaScript language (functions, closures, and prototypes), nor were there any books that covered the writing of cross-browser code. Unfortunately, the situation has not improved much, which is surprising.
More and more development energy is being put into new technologies, such as the ones coming out of HTML5 or the new versions of ECMAScript. But there isn’t any point to diving into new technologies, or using the hottest libraries, if you don’t have a proper understanding of the fundamental characteristics of the JavaScript language. While the future for ...
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