作者：Bear Bibeault, Yehuda Katz, John Resig
出版日期：February 7, 2008
出版社：Manning Publications
页数：376
ISBN：ISBN-10: 1933988355 ISBN-13: 978-1933988351
文件格式：PDF

Product Description
A good web development framework anticipates what you need to do andmakes those tasks easier and more efficient; jQuery practically readsyour mind. Developers of every stripe-hobbyists and professionalsalike-fall in love with jQuery the minute they’ve reduced 20 lines ofclunky JavaScript into three lines of elegant, readable code. This new,concise JavaScript library radically simplifies how you traverse HTMLdocuments, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactionsto your web pages.jQuery in Action,like jQuery itself, is a concise tool designed to make you a moreefficient and effective web developer. In a short 300 pages, this bookintroduces you to the jQuery programming model and guides you throughthe major features and techniques you’ll need to be productiveimmediately. The book anchors each new concept in the tasks you’lltackle in day-to-day web development and offers unique lab pages whereyou immediately put your jQuery knowledge to work.There are dozens of JavaScript libraries available now, with majorcompanies like Google, Yahoo and AOL open-sourcing their in-housetools. This book shows you how jQuery stacks up against other librariesand helps you navigate interaction with other tools and frameworks.
jQuery in Action offers a rich investigation of theup-and-coming jQuery library for client-side JavaScript. This bookcovers all major features and capabilities in a manner focused ongetting the reader up and running with jQuery from the very firstsections. Web Developers reading this book will gain a deepunderstanding of how to use jQuery to simplify their pages and lives,as well as learn the philosophy behind writing jQuery-enhanced pages.
About the Author
Bear Bibeault has been working in the area of web applications sincethe mid-90s, getting started with beta versions of JSP and Servlets. Heis a senior moderator at the popular JavaRanch site, and hascontributed articles to that site’s JavaRanch Journal. He alsoco-authored two other Manning books: Ajax in Practice and Prototype andScriptaculous in Action. Bear works and resides in Austin, TX.
Yehuda Katz contributes actively to jQuery, heading up the plugindevelopment team. He also runs Visual jQuery, a dynamic, brosableversion of the jQuery API, used heavily by new users of the library andcore developers alike. Born in Minnesota and raised in New York, he nowlives in sunny Santa Barbara, CA, where he works for ProcoreTechnologies.