Subj : Re: Learning HTML/Java
To   : Digital Man
From : Tracker1
Date : Sat Sep 10 2005 02:21 pm

Digital Man wrote:
> If you want to learn JavaScript, I recommend the O'reilly "Rhino" book:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jscript4/
> 
> Or you can use the free online JavaScript guide and references here:
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guide
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference
> 
> Of course, JavaScript is not the *only* HTML scripting language. And JavaScript
> is used in Synchronet for much more than just HTML generation, but getting
> familiar with JavaScript is a good thing, for sure, for any Synchronet sysop.

Just to to toss in a few other resources... I like the JavaScript Bible as a 
starting book myself...

JS Bible: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764557432
     note: don't bother with the "Gold" edition, the beginning chapters in
     that version are only on the cd, get 5th edition, and if you want more,
     get the gold edition then..

Also a really good javascript documentation is the MS 5.1 docs for JScript,
which is essentially the same thing, with the exception of the ActiveXObject 
that is MS specific, it's probably the best reference for JS imho.

http://www.theroughnecks.net/jsdoc.exe
     Yeah, it is windows only, I think there is a CHM viewer for gnome now,
     but not sure how hard it is to get working.  MS combined all the script
     help into one big help now, this version is from before the merge, it
     is generally really easy to find what I am looking for in here.

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