Words of thanks


This book would never have been written if I hadn't gained a lot of experience by creating the 100 or so JavaScript pages on www.quirksmode.org and if they hadn't been appreciated worldwide.

Therefore first thanks go to my faithful readers who supported me mentally over the years, and who are now supporting me materially by buying this book.

Second thanks go to the editors of this book: Dean Edwards (general), Derek Featherstone (accessibility), and David Flanagan (Core), whose useful comments uncovered many mistakes and omissions; my development editor Wendy Sharp, who tightened the book considerably and more than once pointed out I forgot to explain something that's obvious to me but not to my readers; and my former colleagues Babette van Hardeveld, Marloes Hautmann, and Remco van 't Veer, who read early drafts of a few chapters and provided valuable feedback from the perspective of non-JavaScript programmers.

Third thanks go to my JavaScript fellow travellers who time and again wrote nifty scripts, explained obscure features, wrote great articles and books, criticized my wilder ideas and generally acted as peer reviewers; among others Cameron Adams, Erik Arvidsson, James Edwards, Aaron Gustafson, Christian Heilmann, Jeff Howden, Jeremy Keith, Stuart Langridge, Scott Andrew LePera, Dylan Schiemann, Bobby van der Sluis, Dori Smith, Dan Webb, and Simon Willison.

Also thanks go to Nick Finck and Jeffrey Zeldman, who over the years gave me plenty of opportunity to publish articles and columns on their sites www.digital-web.com and www.alistapart.com, who provided me with serious, enlightening feedback, and whose early encouragement proved to me that, though not a native speaker, I could write English well enough to get along in the world of Web development.

Special thanks go to E minor, the mysterious resident guru of the WDF mailing list who patiently explained the concept of object detection and why it's superior to browser detection to a bewildered newbie back in 1998. This explanation showed me how clueless the average JavaScript developer was, and since I was now slightly less clueless myself I decided to publish a few articles to explain this and other important JavaScript principles.



ppk on JavaScript. Modern, Accessible, Unobtrusive JavaScript Explained by Means of Eight Real-World Example Scripts2006
ppk on JavaScript. Modern, Accessible, Unobtrusive JavaScript Explained by Means of Eight Real-World Example Scripts2006
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Year: 2005
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