The Art and Science of JavaScript arrived
Thursday, January 24th, 2008 at 1:16 am
My latest contribution to the ink-on-dead-tree media is a chapter for Sitepoint’s new book
The Art and Science of JavaScript. I’ve been giving details about the history and the contents of the book in detail in a blog post on the Yahoo Developer Blog and while it has been out for a while I just got my free copies today, hence the delay.
My chapter in detail covers how you can build a badge to display information you stored on another site in yours without having to resort to a server side solution or slow down your site. All the magic happens after the page has been loaded and if there is no JavaScript available, visitors will still see a link to the same online resource.
It is a detailed explanation of the rationale and script that feeds my del.icio.us plugin for wordpress shown below:
[delicious:My links about JavaScript,codepo8,10,javascript]
Whilst not the flashiest of the chapters I hope that people can learn something about APIs, REST and dynamic script node generation from it.
I was personally very positively surprised by the quality of the book itself: the full colour print, typography and iconography are very nice. The only thing that is missing is an author name or short bio on the chapter start page, it is a bit tricky to know who did what. Well done Sitepoint!
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