ppk on JavaScript - Links

Peter-Paul Koch, ppk on JavaScript, 1st edition, New Riders, 2006. ISBN 0321423305.
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On this page you can find all the links in the book.

Chapter 1

• ECMA's JavaScript Core specification.
• W3C�s DOM specification, which includes Events and CSS modification.
• Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group. If a direct link to their BOM specification comes into existence I'll add it here.
• Microsoft�s event model.
• Microsoft�s XMLHttpRequest.
• Brendan Eich's roadmap update for the deployment of Core 2.0.
• Frame Busting page. Archived, but the technique is still valid.
• Enhancing Structural Markup with JavaScript by Simon Willison.
• Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications by Jesse James Garrett. This article started the Ajax hype.
• 134 Ajax frameworks and counting on Ajaxian.

Chapter 2

• The Web Standards Project.
• Unobtrusive DHTML and the power of unordered lists by Stuart Langridge, in which he coined the term "unobtrusive JavaScript".
• Access Matters, where Bob Easton publishes the results of the research he conducted along with JavaScript/accessibility specialists Mike Stenhouse, James Edwards, and Derek Featherstone.
• Screen reader event support by James Edwards.
• Should users of older screen-readers disable JavaScript? Derek Featherstone thinks so.

Chapter 3

• HTML support in mobile phones by Molly Holzschlag.
• Evolt and Webdesign-L are good general web development mailing lists.
• WDF-DOM and the JavaScript list at latech.edu are good JavaScript mailing lists.
• My browser detect script. Completely rewritten since I wrote chapter 3.
• Venkman JavaScript Debugger.
• Information about the Microsoft Script Debugger.
• The bug test page I created after I'd solved the bug explained in section 3E.
• Report bugs in Opera.
• Report bugs in Mozilla.
• Report bugs in Explorer 7. Not for earlier versions!
• QuirksMode Bug Report.

Chapter 4

• W3C's definition of the defer attribute.
• Dean Edwards on the onload problem.

Chapter 5

• The ECMA specification of Core JavaScript.
• Critique of the specification by Douglas Crockford.
• The Math object on W3Schools.
• The Boolean generator.

Chapter 6

• WHAT-WG.
• Overview of popup arguments.
• My cookie scripts.

Chapter 7

• The hasLayout property as explained by Ingo Chao.
• W3C's DOM mutation events. As yet hardly supported, but interesting nonetheless.
• Microsoft proprietary events. Obviously, most of them work only in Internet Explorer.
• Dean Edwards' addEvent solution.

Chapter 8

• Benchmark W3C DOM vs. innerHTML.

Chapter 9

• My Find Position script.

Chapter 10

• HTTP request headers.
• HTTP status codes.
• JSON.org for all your JSON needs.
• The Hijax methodology by Jeremy Keith.