Object-Oriented JavaScript Second Edition -- Table of Contents -- Object-Oriented JavaScript Second Edition -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Object-oriented JavaScript -- A bit of history -- Browser wars and renaissance -- The present -- The future -- ECMAScript 5 -- Object-oriented programming -- Objects -- Classes -- Encapsulation -- Aggregation -- Inheritance -- Polymorphism -- OOP summary -- Setting up your training environment -- WebKit's Web Inspector -- JavaScriptCore on a Mac -- More consoles -- Summary -- 2. Primitive Data Types, Arrays, Loops, and Conditions -- Variables -- Variables are case sensitive -- Operators -- Primitive data types -- Finding out the value type - the typeof operator -- Numbers -- Octal and hexadecimal numbers -- Exponent literals -- Infinity -- NaN -- Strings -- String conversions -- Special strings -- Booleans -- Logical operators -- Operator precedence -- Lazy evaluation -- Comparison -- Undefined and null -- Primitive data types recap -- Arrays -- Adding/updating array elements -- Deleting elements -- Arrays of arrays -- Conditions and loops -- The if condition -- The else clause -- Code blocks -- Checking if a variable exists -- Alternative if syntax -- Switch -- Loops -- While loops -- Do-while loops -- For loops -- For-in loops -- Comments -- Summary -- Exercises -- 3. Functions -- What is a function? -- Calling a function -- Parameters -- Predefined functions -- parseInt() -- parseFloat() -- isNaN() -- isFinite() -- Encode/decode URIs -- eval() -- A bonus - the alert() function.

Scope of variables -- Variable hoisting -- Functions are data -- Anonymous functions -- Callback functions -- Callback examples -- Immediate functions -- Inner (private) functions -- Functions that return functions -- Function, rewrite thyself! -- Closures -- Scope chain -- Breaking the chain with a closure -- Closure #1 -- Closure #2 -- A definition and closure #3 -- Closures in a loop -- Getter/setter -- Iterator -- Summary -- Exercises -- 4. Objects -- From arrays to objects -- Elements, properties, methods, and members -- Hashes and associative arrays -- Accessing an object's properties -- Calling an object's methods -- Altering properties/methods -- Using the this value -- Constructor functions -- The global object -- The constructor property -- The instanceof operator -- Functions that return objects -- Passing objects -- Comparing objects -- Objects in the WebKit console -- console.log -- Built-in objects -- Object -- Array -- A few array methods -- Function -- Properties of function objects -- Prototype -- Methods of function objects -- Call and apply -- The arguments object revisited -- Inferring object types -- Boolean -- Number -- String -- A few methods of string objects -- Math -- Date -- Methods to work with date objects -- Calculating birthdays -- RegExp -- Properties of RegExp objects -- Methods of RegExp objects -- String methods that accept regular expressions as arguments -- search() and match() -- replace() -- Replace callbacks -- split() -- Passing a string when a RegExp is expected -- Error objects -- Summary -- Exercises -- 5. Prototype -- The prototype property -- Adding methods and properties using the prototype -- Using the prototype's methods and properties -- Own properties versus prototype properties -- Overwriting a prototype's property with an own property -- Enumerating properties -- isPrototypeOf().

The secret __proto__ link -- Augmenting built-in objects -- Augmenting built-in objects - discussion -- Prototype gotchas -- Summary -- Exercises -- 6. Inheritance -- Prototype chaining -- Prototype chaining example -- Moving shared properties to the prototype -- Inheriting the prototype only -- A temporary constructor - new F() -- Uber - access to the parent from a child object -- Isolating the inheritance part into a function -- Copying properties -- Heads-up when copying by reference -- Objects inherit from objects -- Deep copy -- object() -- Using a mix of prototypal inheritance and copying properties -- Multiple inheritance -- Mixins -- Parasitic inheritance -- Borrowing a constructor -- Borrow a constructor and copy its prototype -- Summary -- Case study - drawing shapes -- Analysis -- Implementation -- Testing -- Exercises -- 7. The Browser Environment -- Including JavaScript in an HTML page -- BOM and DOM - an overview -- BOM -- The window object revisited -- window.navigator -- Your console is a cheat sheet -- window.location -- window.history -- window.frames -- window.screen -- window.open()/close() -- window.moveTo() and window.resizeTo() -- window.alert(), window.prompt(), and window.confirm() -- window.setTimeout() and window.setInterval() -- window.document -- DOM -- Core DOM and HTML DOM -- Accessing DOM nodes -- The document node -- documentElement -- Child nodes -- Attributes -- Accessing the content inside a tag -- DOM access shortcuts -- Siblings, body, first, and last child -- Walk the DOM -- Modifying DOM nodes -- Modifying styles -- Fun with forms -- Creating new nodes -- DOM-only method -- cloneNode() -- insertBefore() -- Removing nodes -- HTML-only DOM objects -- Primitive ways to access the document -- document.write() -- Cookies, title, referrer, domain -- Events -- Inline HTML attributes -- Element Properties.

DOM event listeners -- Capturing and bubbling -- Stop propagation -- Prevent default behavior -- Cross-browser event listeners -- Types of events -- XMLHttpRequest -- Sending the request -- Processing the response -- Creating XMLHttpRequest objects in IE prior to Version 7 -- A is for Asynchronous -- X is for XML -- An example -- Summary -- Exercises -- 8. Coding and Design Patterns -- Coding patterns -- Separating behavior -- Content -- Presentation -- Behavior -- Example of separating behavior -- Asynchronous JavaScript loading -- Namespaces -- An Object as a namespace -- Namespaced constructors -- A namespace() method -- Init-time branching -- Lazy definition -- Configuration object -- Private properties and methods -- Privileged methods -- Private functions as public methods -- Immediate functions -- Modules -- Chaining -- JSON -- Design patterns -- Singleton -- Singleton 2 -- Global variable -- Property of the Constructor -- In a private property -- Factory -- Decorator -- Decorating a Christmas tree -- Observer -- Summary -- A. Reserved Words -- Keywords -- Future reserved words -- Previously reserved words -- B. Built-in Functions -- C. Built-in Objects -- Object -- Members of the Object constructor -- The Object.prototype members -- ECMAScript 5 additions to Object -- Array -- The Array.prototype members -- ECMAScript 5 additions to Array -- Function -- The Function.prototype members -- ECMAScript 5 additions to a function -- Boolean -- Number -- Members of the Number constructor -- The Number.prototype members -- String -- Members of the String constructor -- The String.prototype members -- ECMAScript 5 additions to String -- Date -- Members of the Date constructor -- The Date.prototype members -- ECMAScript 5 additions to Date -- Math -- Members of the Math object -- RegExp -- The RegExp.prototype members -- Error objects.

The Error.prototype members -- JSON -- Members of the JSON object -- D. Regular Expressions -- Index.