Thanks much to
Cameron Adams for doing the tech review. I??™ll be sure to buy you all a drink the next time
we meet in person.
A big thanks to the many people within the JavaScript community who continue to share
their knowledge with everybody, including Douglas Crockford, Andrew Dupont, Dustin Diaz,
Dean Edwards, Christian Heilmann, Peter-Paul Koch (PPK), Stuart Colville, Joe Hewitt, John
Resig, and many more I??™m sure I??™ve forgotten because I have a memory like a sieve.
Finally, this book wouldn??™t be possible without the support of my family. Thanks to my
mom, Mel, Pat, and Trish for watching Hayden when I needed a weekend to write. Thanks to
my wife, Michelle, for pushing me to get this finished and giving me the support to do it.
Jonathan Snook
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Introduction
Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries will give you a better understanding
of JavaScript. You can then take that new knowledge and apply it to various facets of web
development such as Ajax, animation, and other DOM scripting tasks. Having this deeper
understanding is an important step to improving your own code as well as accelerating your
development by using popular JavaScript libraries. With the popularity of DOM scripting these
days, I wrote this book to shed some additional light on current techniques and hopefully add
some clarity to it all.
Who This Book Is For
This book is intended for those of you who have done some JavaScript before.
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