As a web designer or developer, you know how powerful DOM scripting is for enhancing web pages and applications, adding dynamic functionality and improving the user experience. Youve got a reasonable understanding of JavaScript and the DOM, but now you want to take your skills further. This book is all you need—it shows you how to add essential functionality to your web pages, such as on the fly layout and style changes, interface personalization, maps and search using APIs, visual effects using JavaScript libraries, and much more. Includes a quick recap of the basics, for reference purposes Packed with real world JavaScript solutions from beginning to end Written by Beginning Google Maps author Jeffrey Sambells, and includes a case study by JavaScript guru Aaron Gustafson