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Acknowledgments

Brendan Eich of the Mozilla organization is the originator and chief
innovator of JavaScript. I, and many JavaScript developers, owe
Brendan a tremendous debt of gratitude for developing JavaScript and
for taking the time out of his crazy schedule to answer our questions
and even solicit our input. Besides patiently answering my many
questions, Brendan also read and provided very helpful comments on
the first and third editions of this book.

This book has been blessed with top-notch technical reviewers, whose
comments have gone a long way toward making it a stronger, more
accurate book. Waldemar Horwat at Netscape reviewed the new material
on JavaScript 1.5 in this fourth edition. The new material on the W3C
DOM was reviewed by Philippe Le Hegaret of the W3C; by Peter-Paul
Koch, Head of Client-Side Programming at the Dutch Internet
consultancy and creation company Netlinq Framfab (http://www.netlinqframfab.nl); by Dylan
Schiemann of SitePen (http://www.sitepen.com); and by independent
web developer Jeff Yates. Two of these reviewers maintain useful web
sites about web design with the DOM. Peter-Paul's site is at
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/.
Jeff's site is http://www.pbwizard.com. Although he was not
a reviewer, Joseph Kesselman of IBM Research was very helpful in
answering my questions about the W3C DOM.

The third edition of the book was reviewed by Brendan Eich, Waldemar
Horwat, and Vidur Apparao at Netscape; Herman Venter at Microsoft;
and two independent JavaScript developers, Jay Hodges and Angelo
Sirigos. Dan Shafer of CNET's Builder.Com did some preliminary
work on the third edition. Although his material was not used in this
edition, his ideas and general outline were quite helpful. Norris
Boyd and Scott Furman at Netscape also provided useful information
for this edition, and Vidur Apparao of Netscape and Scott Issacs of
Microsoft each took the time to talk to me about the forthcoming
Document Object Model standard. Finally, Dr. Tankred Hirschmann
provided challenging insights into the intricacies of JavaScript 1.2.

The second edition benefited greatly from the help and comments of
Nick Thompson and Richard Yaker of Netscape; Dr. Shon Katzenberger,
Larry Sullivan, and Dave C. Mitchell at Microsoft; and Lynn Rollins
of R&B Communications. The first edition was reviewed by Neil
Berkman of Bay Networks, and by Andrew Schulman and Terry Allen of
O'Reilly & Associates.

This book also gains strength from the diversity of editors it has
had. Paula Ferguson is the editor of this edition and of the third
edition. She's given the book a thorough and much-needed going
over, making it easier to read and easier to understand. Frank
Willison edited the second edition, and Andrew Schulman edited the
first.

Finally, my thanks, as always and for so many reasons, to Christie.

David Flanagan, September 2001