Careful design and integration is required for many of the JavaScript functions used in today's web applications, but these functions often rely on the same core set of tasks. Rather than reinvent the wheel every time, you'll find ways to address these common tasks quickly through the recipes in this cookbook. Covering both ECMAScript 5 and HTML5, JavaScript Cookbook helps you take advantage of the latest web features, including HTML5's persistent storage mechanisms and drawing canvas. You'll find solutions for integrating these features with JavaScript into UIs that people will enjoy using. The recipes in this book not only help you get things done, they'll also help you develop applications that work reliably in every browser. * Learn how JavaScript helps you reach into the core of pages and stylesheets to create interfaces * Understand how regular expressions can simplify key text and form processing challenges * Explore recent additions for storing application information inside the browser * Get started with common JavaScript libraries, including jQuery and Prototype * Apply XML and JSON to application-communication issues

About the Author

Shelley Powers has been working with, and writing about, web technologies--from the first release of JavaScript to the latest graphics and design tools--for more than 12 years. Her recent O'Reilly books have covered the semantic web, Ajax, JavaScript, and web graphics. She's an avid amateur photographer and web development aficionado, who enjoys applying her latest experiments on her many web sites.