Thanks Peter, but I'm one of those weirdoes that likes a book next to me while I work on the computer. Strange, no?

 

But you raise a good point about bandwagon jumpers. If Danny Goodman had revised his Dynamic HTML reference since 2006 to include HTML5 I'd snap it up in a heartbeat. The first two editions are indispensable to me. In fact, I might just get the third edition because it covers Ajax and I know little about it.

I've found that the Mozilla Developer Network is a good reference, btw, should you want to look things up.

In fact, I have a whole pile of bookmarks relating to webdev :O One really nice one is jsFiddle, which lets you experiment with HTML, CSS and/or JS (and a library like jQuery or Dojo) without having to set up a whole page to do so. It's great for trying out quick ideas.

Oooh, that jsFiddle link looks good, thankee!