GRAYGER

The “Pro JavaScript Techniques” authored by John Resig, the creator of jQuery, is a excellent book. I neither bought nor read the book. Instead I just read sample code snippets from http://jspro.org/code/ and tested them. Guessing from the code snippets, Ch.2 and Ch.3 describe backgrounds of JavaScript. I think these chapters are the core of this book and they really help us understand the concept of “prototype-based” and write object-oriented JavaScript code gracefully. Remaining chapters are for advanced techniques and tips: Ajax, DOM, cross-browser supporting, new features of JavaScript 1.6/1.7 and so on. Even though these chapters are not so much impressive to me, they also seem to be worthwhile to read.