Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.72
EAN num: 9781575213354
ISBN number: 1575213354
Label: Sams
Manufacturer: Sams
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 508
Printing Date: 1997-09
Publishing house: Sams
Sale Popularity Level: 771917
Studio: Sams
Editor's Notes and Comments:
Product Description:
This tutorial explores the use of the new Dynamic HTML technologies from both Microsoft and Netscape. The book teaches the new Dynamic HTML tags and concepts like the Document Object Model in a clear, step-by-step manner with lots of practical examples. The CD-ROM includes electronic versions of 'Teach Yourself JavaScript' and 'Teach Yourself VBScript'.
Amazon.com Review:
As the title suggests, Teach Yourself Dynamic HTML in a Week is a straightforward tutorial, designed to provide you with enough information and practice to quickly begin coding for 4.0 browsers. While some titles lump multiple HTML topics together under the 'Dynamic HTML' banner, this one sticks strictly to its subject, covering both Netscape and Microsoft implementations of scripting, HTML, and style sheets to create dynamic and interactive content. Advanced topics, such as the integration of multiple languages and objects into your Web site design, are also considered. Each chapter represents a day's lesson plan and covers a single topic in depth. Workshop and wrap-up sections are included in each lesson for hands-on practice. The appendices provide excellent reference for HTML 4, JavaScript, VBScript, and cascading style sheets. All of the included source code and HTML examples--as well as recommended Web creation utilities and electronic versions of related titles--are available on the book's companion Web site.
User popularity level:
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To be fair, this book is over 3 years old. Of course it will have outdated information. At the time this was written the W3C wasn't sure which direction to go. That alone leaves lots of issues up in the air. I got this book 2 years ago and it was helpful then but I came back here looking for an updated version and did not see one. If you are new to DHTML this book will be less helpful than more recent ones.
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This book is out of date and the author is pretty unsure if the code will work for IE 4. The author uses IE 4 beta to test the code. Also, I bought this book to learn about moving objects, this book does a poor job in explaining how to create animation with DHTML.
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The nicely laid out examples work only in Internet Explorer. The authors have no clue. This is book is a waste of time, as it doesn't address cross browser functionality of DHTML. If you're a professional stay away from this book. The irresponsible publisher should be held accountable.
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I knew a fair bit about HTML when I bought this and I learnt a great deal more from it. A very useful introduction to DHTML, I use it as a reference book. I don't agree with the reviewers who criticise it so heavily, I think it is well worth having on your shelf. OK there are non browser-independant examples, but you will soon work out what is going to work with each browser anyway (or you should!) PS OK one or two examples failed for me, but most are fine.
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The book is not well organized, poorly written and cannot in any way be used as a reference. In many cases it does not tell you if the code will work with both browsers, in many cases it teches you old, non-standard technologies like JavaScript Style Sheets and Visual Basic Script. If you really like to figure out something yourself using book's narrow hints you might want to buy it. I actually managed to build a few sophisticated web sites partially because of reading this book.
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