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jQuery in Action |  | Authors: Bear Bibeault, Yehuda Katz
Creator: John Resig
Publisher: Manning Publications
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Pages: 376
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ISBN: 1933988355
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
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Publication Date: February 7, 2008
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A good web development framework anticipates what you need to do and makes those tasks easier and more efficient; jQuery practically reads your mind. Developers of every stripe-hobbyists and professionals alike-fall in love with jQuery the minute they've reduced 20 lines of clunky JavaScript into three lines of elegant, readable code. This new, concise JavaScript library radically simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery in Action, like jQuery itself, is a concise tool designed to make you a more efficient and effective web developer. In a short 300 pages, this book introduces you to the jQuery programming model and guides you through the major features and techniques you'll need to be productive immediately. The book anchors each new concept in the tasks you'll tackle in day-to-day web development and offers unique lab pages where you immediately put your jQuery knowledge to work. There are dozens of JavaScript libraries available now, with major companies like Google, Yahoo and AOL open-sourcing their in-house tools. This book shows you how jQuery stacks up against other libraries and helps you navigate interaction with other tools and frameworks. jQuery in Action offers a rich investigation of the up-and-coming jQuery library for client-side JavaScript. This book covers all major features and capabilities in a manner focused on getting the reader up and running with jQuery from the very first sections. Web Developers reading this book will gain a deep understanding of how to use jQuery to simplify their pages and lives, as well as learn the philosophy behind writing jQuery-enhanced pages.
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 Not a good Intro book for non-professional programmers September 7, 2010
Max Rockbin (Portland, OR)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
These comments (and the star rating) are very specifically from the point of view of someone who wants to add some interactivity and AJAX to webpages using the most straightforward efficient method, which is with JQuery.
THE GOOD: These guys absolutely know JQuery and JavaScript. They are fluent experts and authorities. They know the minute details and the inner guts.
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Also, they put a great deal of effort into this book. They built some excellent downloadable learning tools and thought quite carefully about the organization of the material.
THE BAD: Again - from the point of view of a non-pro: Too few examples. The examples that were included are often not simple or straightforward. In several cases, JQuery statements are simply listed with various parameters barely explained with no examples at all. I suspect if I was a professional JavaScript programmer a lot of the left out stuff would be trivial or obvious. But the weren't to me.
In other places there is a surfeit of unnecessary technical material. The chapter on events, for example, starts off with long sections on the DOM event model and cross browser issues without a HINT that those issues aren't material to the JQuery user (that's the point! JQuery handles that stuff so I don't need to know).
Also the authors use far too many exclamation points! Sometimes I feel like I'm reading ad copy for JQuery!
In other places I feel like the authors are merely wallowing in their technical knowledge, throwing off little lines like 'We could employ other solutions: implementing the Observable Pattern, which establishes a Publish/Subscribe theme for handlers..' blah blah blah. Their point had nothing to do with JQuery. They seemed to simply want to show they know about the "Observable Pattern" programming paradigm.
Woohoo. (!). They spent several pages (at the beginning of the Events chapter) going over a Capture DOM model only to say (at the end of those pages) that no one really uses it. Considering some of the genuinely important stuff they put in the appendix, why are they putting stuff no one uses at the beginning of an important chapter?
INTERNET EXPLORER: As far as these guys are concerned, Internet Explorer is a bastard stepchild marginal fringe case. They seem embarrassed and appalled that they have to mention it within their pristine pages. OK. They don't like it. But more than half the browsers out there are IE and IE 8 continues to have its own quirks and not follow standards. DEAL WITH IT. JQuery itself has very much code dedicated to sorting out IE issues. It would be nice if the authors would hit that issue head on. A simple list of the various things you can do with JQuery that fix previous browser difficulties that required different code (CSS properties or JavaScript DOM issues) would be nice. Dealing with Internet Explorer hassles (and cross browser hassles in general) is one of the great gifts of JQuery.
Marginalizing that gift because of a distaste for the major browser (like it or not) just is not helpful. I'm not saying they deny the existence of IE. They just don't make it a focus at any point.
I don't like giving a book like this which clearly shows the earmarks of expertise and hard work a negative review. It may be the best JQuery book out there (I haven't read any others yet), but this book seriously needs some editing. Either that or I am simply the wrong audience. I do believe a professional JavaScript programmer would get more out of this than I did.
But in any event, the book should decide if it wants to be a reference, a tutorial, or both. I just think it's not a great introduction to a great subject.
 Looks great so far. August 20, 2010
Boris (Austin, TX USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Only read a few chapters yet. So far looks like the best introduction of JQuery that I was ever able to get by just looking at online tutorials and trying to comprehend other peoples code.
JQuery explained in simple terms August 9, 2010
NerdsRUs
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Here's why I gave this book a 5-star rating
1. I was new to JQuery, and they did a fantastic job of explaining it in very simple terms, without muddling it with unwanted details (like you try to pick up a new technology and wham! - you're hit with a dozen other related technologies that you don't care about right now)
2. Each chapter builds on the previous one.
3. When you get to Events, they've done a fantastic job of explaining the inner workings of JavaScript in the appendix. This makes understanding JQuery events a lot easier.
4. The examples are great. Where possible, the authors talk about real world situations.
One thing I'd improve on
1. Some topics are discussed too much in detail. For a beginner wanting to get his/her hands dirty with code, there's way too much covered. This is good if someone wants to build a rich client interface application, but an overkill when a majority of us are looking to enhance our website and cut down on javascript code. But again, there's not one book that can satisfy everyone, and I'll take the extra details anytime, than a poorly written book.
My advice: If you are a novice with JQuery, but this book.
JQuery totally rocks! July 26, 2010
Juan Carlos (Mexico City)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Unobtrusive JavaScript is awesome. The book is a little hard to read. I imagine it is easier to read in from of the computer while trying the examples, but I have not tried it.
 Time Well Spent April 6, 2010
David Rankin (Ashland, Ky. United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Will get you up to speed on JQuery. Provides an overview of JQuery, the Plug In framework and how to program instructions, but I think the book might have been a little better organized. I think that Appendix A should have been chapter 1 and chapter 6 pertaining to the utility functions should have been chapter 2. Also I couldn't get the zip file containing the "lab" and source code to download from the Manning web site.
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