DOM Scripting comments: The book has landed http://domscripting.com/blog/display/21 I finally got my hands on my own book. en Jeremy Keith http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment101 Yes.

No one must ever know my terrible secret.

]]> Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:36:27 GMT Yvonne Adams http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment100 Is the drink a bribe to get me to send it back, eliminating the evidence?

]]> Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:25:58 GMT Jeremy Keith http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment97 Yvonne, send it straight back to Amazon!

Needless to say, this is quite embarrassing for me. Not only will I sign your (replacement) copy at SxSW, I’ll buy you a drink too. Deal?

]]> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 02:06:45 GMT Yvonne Adams http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment94 Add another copy with pages 107-154 upside down! (Amazon.com)

Hmm, if I bring it to SXSW and have you autograph it, will the upside down pages make it a collectible?

]]> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:24:59 GMT Jeremy Keith http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment81 Yes Craig, I did go through a couple of different ideas for the cover, and yes, I will share the rejects. I feel a blog post coming on…

]]> Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:25:22 GMT Craig C. http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment80 My copy finally arrived this week (I opted for the cheapest shipping, which apparently involves crossing the desert by pack-mule). I’m only a chapter into it so I’ll withhold my review for now (chapter one is fabulous). But I just wanted to comment on the cover design, which I agree turned out nicely. Simple, clean, elegant - very fitting for the subject. And I commend you and the printers for getting such a narrow gradient to stretch so far without banding.

What other cover concepts did you go through and will you share some rejects with us? Was the asterisk-and-brace motif intentional, or a happy accident? And would the character sequence "*}-" ever actually appear in JavaScript?

]]> Fri, 14 Oct 2005 21:57:33 GMT Dustin Diaz http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment75 Jeremy I have a brief list of comments written down on a notepad about your book. I’m only 6 chapters in (I don’t know where the hell you other folks found the time to read this book in a day!), so I’ll hold off on posting about it. But as soon as i do I’ll let you know.

]]> Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:23:12 GMT Tim Hill http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment70 " Some form of celebration is called for."

involving tequila and spanish dancing? Cool!

]]> Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:10:57 GMT chris jopson http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment69 Review on Amazon.co.uk submitted. Apparently it can take a day or two to appear. I may have been a wee bit gushing though, so try not to blush if you read it.

]]> Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:22:41 GMT Dustin Diaz http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment68 What’s up Jeremy, Just received it this morning after a long Washington DC vacation. I’ll be diving into your book tonite and will have a review out to you on my site by the end of the week. I’ll also be sure to make it as detailed as possible and let you know of any errata and all the sort and be constructive as possible.

All the best bro and congratulations. Dustin

]]> Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:08:09 GMT Jeremy Keith http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment67 Hey Chris, I’m really glad you enjoyed the book. If you fancy adding a little review to Amazon.co.uk, that would be much appreciated - get the ball rolling, and all.

Bruce, I’m taking out a restraining order.

]]> Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:00:47 GMT chris jopson http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment66 Just finished the book. Absolutely superb. Thank you very much. I’m bursting with ideas now, some based on stealing and modifying your code but also lots of others that I want to start trying out. The book was exactly what I was looking for.

]]> Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:12:22 GMT Ron Green http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment65 I’ve only made it thru the first hundred pages but so far I’m very pleased with my purchase. This is a very well written and thought out book. I’ll write a review on my blog when I’m done.

]]> Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:43:02 GMT bruce http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment63 It’s got to be easy, though, for a DOMcripter of your calibre? Whack through the DOM nodes, work out the width of the parent element and the width of the paragraph marked up as <p class="marquee">, then just loop round moving the characters left until they fall out of the parent width, in which case, forget about that letter.

When, say, the middle character has scrolled out of the container, start scrolling the first character at the rightmost position in the container.

Make it more flexible: <p class="marquee left slow"> to control direction and speed of scroll.

Or maybe .. you’re too chicken, eh????!?

]]> Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:31:15 GMT Jeremy Keith http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment62 Bruce, Bruce, Bruce. What are we going to do with you? My brain still hasn’t recovered from the onslaught of your CSS Zen Garden entry.

Seriously though, a review would be most appreciated (the cheque is in the mail).

]]> Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:04:08 GMT Bruce http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment61 Looks rocking, Jeremy. I’m going to review it when I have a moment, to go alonmgside my review of Stuart’s book.

The only downside to it is the lack of the chapter that you promised me on how to code the script for a scrolling marquee to make up for its inexplicable absence from the css spec.

]]> Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:56:08 GMT Stuart Langridge http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment60 Nice one, Jeremy. Mucho congratulationso.

]]> Sun, 09 Oct 2005 20:11:30 GMT Rob Winters http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment59 Just about to order my copy from Amazon. Looking forward to DOMing up my sites.

]]> Sun, 09 Oct 2005 10:44:29 GMT Conánn http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment58 Looking forward to getting my paws on a copy!

]]> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 23:15:22 GMT Jeremy Keith http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment57 Upside down?! That’s pretty extreme. Whereabouts did you buy the book? I hope there aren’t any more copies like that floating about.

]]> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 18:06:14 GMT Neil Cadsawan http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment56 I picked up a copy last week and think it’s just what I need to learn DOM Scripting. So, a big thanks to you.

One a publishing note, my copy has the entire section from pages 107-155 bound upside down. The bookstore gave me a discount on it. Of course I was going to buy it regardless.

]]> Sat, 08 Oct 2005 17:43:16 GMT Kev http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/21#comment55 I’ve had mine fir a few days now and am enjoying it very much. I bought it together with Stuart Langridge’s DHTML Utopia which I’ll read after yours.

This is the first JS work I’ve done since the late 90’s so I’m finding it a very enjoyable experience to forget about fluffy mouse trails and onclick attributes. This is definitely a book ‘of the moment’ and I hope it does very well for you.

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