John
Germantown
Why I want to consume this — 3 years ago
The 5th edition of JavaScript: The Definitive Guide has new sections on E4X, AJAX, XMLHttpRequest, XPath, XSLT, SVG, and the new Canvas element.
In short, while the past 4 years have been very uneven in terms of the growth different browsers have experienced, most can do quite a bit more and have way more advanced Java than existed at the start of the decade.
People who want to program a modern browser like Safari, Firefox, or Opera are going to be interested in a book like this.
Having already skimmed the book and read a few of its examples, I can say this book is really tremendous!
