Thau did it again! The second edition is even better than the first:
all the good real world examples, tips for giving fussy browsers "what
they want," a really handy reference, plus over a hundred new pages on
AJAX--Asynchronous JavaScript and XML--all the rage these days, it
seems, and the "magic" behind Google maps and the photo-sharing
interface of Flickr.
I felt great satisfaction when I wrote my first AJAX application--a
shared to do list--with the help of this book. I got up and running in
almost no time. I appreciated all the extras, too, like how to set up
a webserver and PHP.
The book is beautifully laid out and easy to use. Each chapter begins
with a set of bullet points that succinctly summarize the content
covered. The material is also presented in a logical way, so that I
always had the background I needed when new concepts were introduced
(or I could easily thumb back and refresh my memory). I highly
recommend The Book of Javascript, take 2!