Diving into JavaScript - Chapter 1

If you’ve read other JavaScript books, you may have had to slog through pages and pages about functions, methods, operands, and so on, before ever learning how to write even the simplest script. As you get into JavaScript, you’ll need to understand those concepts and more, but you can start spiffing up your web pages just by diving into JavaScript. That’s what this chapter is about. By the time you’ve finished, you’ll know two handy scripts, one to add descriptive comments to the status bar, and the other to use the time to serve custom pages. [via]

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