The Goals of This Book
The main goal of this book is to get you to the point of writing your own JavaScripts. An important tool in learning to write scripts is the ability to read other people's scripts. JavaScript is a sprawling language, and you can learn thousands of little tricks from other scripts. In fact, once you've finished this book, you'll find that viewing the source code of web pages that use JavaScript is the best way to increase your knowledge.
Each of the following chapters includes JavaScript techniques used in building professional sites. Along the way, I'll point out sites that use the technique described, and by viewing the source code of such sites you'll soon see there are many ways to script. Sometimes going through a site's ...
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