When we talk about instruments, sometimes the guitar gets all the credit. Of course guitars are great, but an electric guitar on its ownâeven a hollow-bodyâis only so loud. For giving one of the world's favorite instruments its voice, guitar amplifiers deserve a little love too.
This book treats JavaScript as a serious object-oriented language, showing you how to build robust, maintainable, and powerful libraries and applications. Along the way, we cover many of the recent innovations such as AJAX, JSON, and interesting design and coding patterns.
Objects. Neither JavaScript nor VBScript is truly object-oriented. Without digressing into a full definition of object-oriented programming, we can safely say that neither language exhibits all of the characteristics of a truly object-oriented language. Neither language, for example, supports the concept of inheritance.