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I'm more than half way through this book and must say that it is very complete in it's coverage. The writer clearly is coming from a Netscape background here with numerous references to Internet Explorer's short comings. He seems to tout NN6's great compliance with the W3C DOM but neglects to mention that NN4 is nearly worthless for scripting. In many of the examples the author clearly shows that certain features have been available since IE4 and only recently adopted in NN6. If you don't mind the the sometimes subtle pot shots at IE, the lack of any concrete examples in the book and the fact that you must reference the CD, which is in itself rather hard to "Navigate", and the fact that some chapters, the advanced ones but the ones that I really wanted to read, are only on the CD then I recommend that you buy this book. What I really wanted was an all-encompassing JavaScript reference book WITH examples. I stress the book part! I can't take my desktop with me and in order to get the full effect of the book you NEED to use the CD. I'd wait for the 5th edition of which I am sure will be coming shortly. Hopefully by then they will have realized their mistakes in making the CD mandatory.

This book is great,coves probably everything there is to cover in javascript but...........if you have never doen anything like this before you should start out with something more siple first,although the book claims new people to web programming, the new people will have a hard time with it.

I would give this book a five star rating for its content if it were easier to locate what I want. Particularly vexing is that the author has placed some of the content only on the CD with listings page such as 'CD-281.' After months of looking I can not find the files designated as 'CD' on the CD.