JavaScript Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - 2.33, by Herong Yang
Prototype-Based Programming Features in JavaScript
This section provides a list of some prototype-based programming features in JavaScript, like constructor function, prototype object, object properties and methods.
As I mentioned in the previous section, JavaScript is a prototype-based programming language. It supports object-oriented programming through a number of features:
Several tutorial examples will be provided later in this chapter to illustrate some of those features.
Table of Contents
ECMAScript Language Specification and JavaScript Dialects
Data Types, Variables and Expressions
Creating, Accessing, and Manipulating Arrays
Defining and Calling Functions
Web Browser Supporting JavaScript
Server-Side and Client-Side Web Scripting
►Defining Your Own Object Types
Prototype-Dased Object-Oriented Programming Style
►Prototype-Based Programming Features in JavaScript
Defining Object Constructor Functions
Adding Properties and Methods to Objects
"for ... in" and "for each ... in" Statements
"prototype" Property of the Constructor Function Object
"instanceof" Operator - Determining Object Type
"typeof" Operator and Data Types
Inheritance of Properties and Methods through the Prototype Object Chain
'jrunscript' - JavaScript Shell Command from JDK
Using Functions as "Function" Objects
Introduction to Built-in Object Types
W3C's Document Object Model (DOM) Specifications