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This edition has more coverage on Ajax and remote scripting, updated code to insure compliance with the most recent popular web browsers including IE, Firefox and Safari, improved examples to use more up-to-date and relevant programming techniques, reorganization of chapters to help streamline learning of related topics and to better integrate new topics." Chapter 1: Introduction to JavaScript and the Web." Chapter 2: Data Types and Variables." Chapter 3: Decisions, Loops, and Functions." Chapter 4: Common Mistakes, Debugging, and Error Handling." Chapter 5: JavaScript -- An Object-Based Language." Chapter 6: Programming the Browser." Chapter 7: HTML Forms: Interacting with the User." Chapter 8: Windows and Frames." Chapter 9: String Manipulation." Chapter 10: Date, Time, and Timers." Chapter 11: Storing Information: Cookies." Chapter 12: Dynamic HTML and the W3C Document Object Model." Chapter 13: Using ActiveX and Plug-Ins with JavaScript." Chapter 14: Ajax." Chapter 15: JavaScript Frameworks.