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Apologies if this isn't the correct place to post this, but after much searching around LJ I found this comm.

So I'm using the LibraryLookup bookmarklet generator to make a bookmarklet that works with my university's library. It worked just fine when it was on ISBN lookup, but it didn't when I tried to change things around on the code so it would search by title/author. How would I go about changing the code around to make it look books up by title or author rather than ISBN? Is it even possible? I know it locates the ISBN on the URL (for example, when looking at a book on amazon) but it could locate the title as well, no?

Apologies if this is a really obvious question, but I have approximately 0 experience with it. Thank you in advance!

I finally after all these years have to learn JavaScript, so I need
some suggestion of Books please. I need a basic from scratch book that
will give a good grounding in JavaScript coding and practices to build
a strong foundation and then maybe sonething more advanced too for later.

I have been coding php, asp, asp.net (vb/c#), python, bash etc so I've
been coding for a while all suggestions welcome.

I want to learn Javascript much better than I know it now and be able to learn what is out there to do with it that is functional. W3schools just doesn't seem like it has a whole lot on there. It seems good for the concepts, but it only goes so far. I operate an online shop and would love to see what javascript I could use to help its overall functionality, as well as be able to bring knowledge to a new job (I see a lot of positions I want to apply for talking about being able to build a javascript warehouse).

Does anyone know any good tutorial/lesson sites that are fairly comprehensive but easy to follow?

Is there a way to find the class name of variable?

typeof(obj); //<-- only says 'object'

obj instanceof MyClass // <- returns boolean

But I want the equivalent of ruby's class() method.

obj.class() # <- outputs 'MyClass'