References for Chapter 14

Books

• Nigel Chapman and Jenny Chapman, Web Design: A Complete Introduction (John Wiley & Sons: 2006)

  Our Web design text concentrates on Web standard technologies (HTTP, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript) and goes into these in greater detail than Digital Multimedia. It also covers server-side scripting in some depth.

• Jeremy Keith, DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model (Friends of Ed: 2005)

  There are lots of books about JavaScript, but this one has the virtue of using the standards. It advocates an unobtrusive approach to scripting, similar to our approach in Digital Multimedia. If you find our treatment too dense, you may find this helps.

• Colin Moock, Essential ActionScript 3.0 (O'Reilly: 2007)

  The most authoritative guide to programming in the latest version of ActionScript.

• David Flanagan, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly: 5th ed., 2006)

  There are many books on JavaScript currently available, but this is one of the best, providing a clear and thorough account of the JavaScript language and its uses on the WWW. This edition covers the standards as well as actual implementations in common browsers.

Web Pages

• Document Object Model (DOM) Specifications

  The various standards defining the W3C DOM can be accessed from this index page. (They are not very readable, even for standards documents.)

• Standard ECMA-262

  The standard defining the core scripting language that is the basis of JavaScript. This version corresponds to the core of JavaScript 1.5, which is what most modern browsers implement. (The standard itself is a PDF that you can download from this page.)