CHAPTER 22
Additional Resources
While my epiphany that JavaScript is an expressive, powerful language came some
time ago, the journey of writing this book has driven that lesson home. JavaScript is
not a “toy language” to be taken lightly or dismissed as a “beginner’s language.” You’ve
made it through this book; you know that all too well!
My goal in this book was not to exhaustively explain every feature of the JavaScript
language, much less explain every important programming technique. If JavaScript is
your primary language, this is just the beginning of your journey. I hope I have given
you a solid foundation that you can build on to become an expert.
Much of the material in this chapter is taken from my first book,
(O’Reilly).
Online Documentation
For JavaScript, CSS, and HTML documentation, the
is without equal. If I need JavaScript documentation, I either search directly
on MDN or append “mdn” to my search query. Otherwise, inevitably, w3schools
appears in the search. Whoever is managing SEO for w3schools is a genius, but I rec‐
ommend avoiding this site; I find the documentation is often severely lacking.
Where MDN is a great HTML reference, if you’re new to HTML5 (or even if you’re
not), you should read Mark Pilgrim’s
. WHATWG maintains an
excellent
“living standard” HTML5 specification
; it is usually where I turn first for
really hard-to-answer HTML questions. Finally, the official specifications for HTML
and CSS are located on the
; they are dry, difficult-to-read documents,
but sometimes it’s your only recourse for the very hardest problems.
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