That's because DOM interactions are one of the least interesting aspects of Javascript and not where the current innovation is happening. JQuery has pretty much taken care of that. Buy a JQuery book for that.
The newer javascript frameworks - the ones that are driving interest in Javascript as a language - are flexing the language features to the point where having good books help. The javascript language is pretty hard and strange when you really start getting in there.
No where on the page does it discount the normal case (using Javascript as page display and animation language) and point out these are mostly for the server side/complicated framework people.
The newer javascript frameworks - the ones that are driving interest in Javascript as a language - are flexing the language features to the point where having good books help. The javascript language is pretty hard and strange when you really start getting in there.