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January 24, 2005

JavaScript References

Now that Netscape's JavaScript reference material appears to be gone, what are people using for online resources? Once I discovered DevEdge was no more, I resorted to some old-fashioned paper-based O'Reilly books. Today I started using Google to find some new online resources, and I'm surprised by how hard good ones are to come by. Any favorites?

Posted by cantrell at January 24, 2005 1:57 PM

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Somebody in Australia recreated some of it as a sidebar for Firefox. It includes stuff for CSS 1 and 2, the DOM, HTML, XSL and more.

You can check it out by saving this URL as a bookmark, and checking the 'view in sidebar' option in it's properties:
http://lachy.id.au/dev/mozilla/sidebar/sidebar.xul

Posted by: Steve Ray at January 24, 2005 2:21 PM

Thanks Steve

Posted by: Daniel Roberts at January 24, 2005 2:35 PM

I primarily use Danny Goodman's Javascript Bible. I pretty much leave the cd loaded all the time and just pull up the pdf when I need it. Being able to search through the text is great.

I find I use the cd more than the actual book. It's so large and cumbersome.

Currently i'm using the gold edition which is a little out of date. The current edition is on my list of things to get at Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764557432/ref=wl_it_dp/002-5146181-5720060?%5Fencoding=UTF8&coliid=IJULLDIZF85L2&v=glance&colid=29HEJ3VAXMPIW

Posted by: Mike Rankin at January 24, 2005 3:25 PM

I usually hit DevGuru (www.devguru.com) which is a Microsoft dev shop that happens to have a pretty nice online JavaScript reference. You can also purchase a copy for local browsing for like $5 or something.

Posted by: barneyb at January 24, 2005 3:28 PM

The O'Reilly Javascript book.

Posted by: Anj at January 24, 2005 4:46 PM

I find this handy from time to time: http://www.webreference.com/js/

Also.. I have gotten so accustomed to using qforms when issues creep up that I need to solve the problem is usually just search in google which turns up someone who solved the same problem or something similar enough by which I can get an answer.

This is also useful, although I haven't used it in awhile.. it was in my favorites, in the wrong folder!

http://javascript-reference.info/

Mike

Posted by: Mike Tangorre at January 24, 2005 4:48 PM

Posted by: Patrick Whittingham at January 24, 2005 4:49 PM

you might also try the IRT site They have an excellent set of references for javascript:

http://www.irt.org/xref/index.htm

hth,

larry

Posted by: larry c. lyons at January 25, 2005 12:01 PM




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