If you want some canned fancy Javascript stuff look at Scriptaculous...
http://script.aculo.us/
These are probably good examples to learn from. I've read some of the
code there and learned some things. (Taking a peek in Mac OS X's
bundled dashboard widgets also has some nice examples.)
I recently learned about attaching Javascript events to items on the
page thus keeping the various on* methods out of your code. Similar to
how people keep font tags out of their code by using CSS. I've got a
book excerpt in PDF I can send you that explains this well. The book is
this one:
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/dhtml1/
The few chapters I read were very good. You can get the excerpt
yourself in trade for your email.
After reading the above I played with Javascript and Events and from
there learned about a Javascript language feature called closures. I
think other languages do closures with decorators. Anyway, an article
that explains closures is here:
http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=171578
With all the AJAX stuff going around Javascript is coming to the
forefront and people are doing more than just alert boxes and image
rollovers. This is why I read the above anyway.
-Rob
perdurabo wrote:
On 7/21/05, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am finally forced to learn Javascript.
The Javascript Visual Quickstart guide is a great and cheap book.
Since you're already a programmer, it's handy for just quick
no-nonsense code lookups to get you going.
Aside from that, just use Google. A lot of the latest AJAX and
XmlHttpRequest() stuff is only on the web, or at best outdatedly in
books.
I've been doing extensive Javascript/AJAX programming for OS X
widgets, lately. Specifically, I'm making heavy use of
XmlHttpRequest(), Javascript timers, and regular expressions.
I lovingly refer to Javascript as "The syntax of C, combined with the
syntax parsing and sanity of VBScript", and you'll have to remember
that largely rings true.
/per
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