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The book is full of stuff like this. On the plus side, the writer's weird style is a refreshing change from the documentation regurgitation in other books.

The book begins with a history and study of limericks, how they are written, where they come from, and more importantly, WHY they are written. Apparently, limericks are intendended to be dirty. Growing up this is one of those big secrets that nobody says anything about because it's too embarrassing. Well, I started reading and every limerick was either sexually explicit, or vulgar beyond belief. I really couldn't believe what I was reading! I didn't finish the book.

As an adult I can appreciate the limerick art form. I may even write my own some day. But I'm not interested in keeping a book on my shelf that I don't want my family, friends or future children to see. I am also going to have to reserve any recommendation for reading this book. Pick it up if you are mature enough to handle the content. Read it if you are into the vulgar and sexually daring side of literature. But don't ever give it to children! I am disappointed in the Salvation Army store because of its negligence. If a child had picked this book up instead of me, there would be dirty little notes making a little girl cry somewhere in a locker somewhere in a public school now. I just hope it doesn't get in the wrong hands again.

Granted, any book attempting to explore tangent handrailing is an advanced text written for the architectural woodworker with some grounding in stairbuilding, however, if you are intent on learning classical handrailing in solid wood, Mowatt is pretty useless. George DiChristina's "A Simplified Guide to Custom Stairbuilding and Handrailing" is a far better choice. It is well organized, and about as clear a manual for the craft as one could hope for.

I wouldn't recommend reading this book if you have never looked into Javascript before, but if you have a general understanding of the web, HTML, and rudimentary Javascript, it can be very insightful.
There are some bugs in the examples, but quite frankly, I have yet to come across a Javascript book that didn't. What I like about the book is that it has real-life examples that you actually could use in your web pages.

This book is a nice introduction to Javascript and is intended "solmnly" for beginner. You will not assumed to understand anything about Javascript before reading this book. The author wrote this book as a step-by-step beginner self study. Any beginner will not be lost and confused, in general.

Some example programs might not work as other reviewer stated, but some other examples work. Despite the not-working-example-programs (if any), this book is still very useful for beginner. I think this book should be at least one of Javascript every beginner reference.

I also noted, that many of the reviewers seemed upset with some of the examples. When I loaded older versions of Netscape, it seemed to be more a problem with the netscape javascript interpeter then with the code itself. Also, one should take into account the date of printing. Some research shows that when first published, Netscape 3.0 was in beta.

I liked the book. And I honestly think the other reviewers were a bit too harsh.

Complete waste of money--take a look at what people are willing to sell "new" books for in the used & new area -- not much.

There's a reason for that.

I'd highly recommend Enterprise JavaBeans Component Architecture by Gail Anderson & Paul Anderson instead.

It's not a complete book in and of itself. You will still need a Java Language reference book. This book is more of a tutorial. It's great for self-learning.