Dynamic HTML allows Web developers to add extraordinary power and interactivity without complex programming - and with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, Dynamic HTML has arrived! This is the first book to show how Dynamic HTML works - and how you can make the most of it. Learn how to create Web pages that automatically, instantly adapt to specific users, their requests, and the information available to them. Understand the fundamental HTML elements introduced with Dynamic HTML, the Object Model, and new, easy-to-use scripting techniques. Discover how to make the most of cascading style sheets. Compare Microsoft's DHTML implementation with Netscape's JavaScript-accessible Style Sheet (JASS) technology. Learn about Netscape layers and Netscape downloadable fonts. Finally, preview the future of Dynamic HTML -- a future that lets you deliver more interactivity and power on your site than ever before.
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This no-nonsense guide to the new Dynamic HMTL (DHTML) standard covers all the essentials, with good coverage of DHTML as used on both the Microsoft and Netscape browsers. First, the author describes what DHTML is, while concentrating on three areas: cascading style sheets (for controlling fonts and styles), an improved scripting language (with better support for events), and a Document Object Model (DOM), which allows programmatic access to all on-screen elements. This book is good at explaining the tug-of-war between Netscape and Microsoft for defining the new DHTML standard.
This text looks at programming with screen elements and event handling. Next, it turns to the object model used to access all screen and browser elements. A discussion of style sheets comes later, only after the fundamentals have been explained. The author then proceeds to look at some of the differences in DHTML between Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape's browser.
There are many references to HTML and DHTML, but The DHTML Companion provides a logical and engaging presentation of all the essentials without overwhelming the reader with every new tag and detail. Many samples of DHTML are also included to get you writing DHTML yourself. --Richard Dragan
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Dynamic HTML makes your Web site "come alive" – without programming!
* Covers both Microsoft cascading style sheets and Netscape implementations.
* Extensive coverage of Dynamic HTML.
* Where's DHTML headed? Plan for the next steps in Web page interactivity!
Dynamic HTML allows Web developers to add extraordinary power and interactivity without complex programming – and with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, Dynamic HTML has arrived! This is the first book to show how Dynamic HTML works – and how you can make the most of it. Learn how to create Web pages that automatically, instantly adapt to specific users, their requests, and the information available to them. Understand the fundamental HTML elements introduced with Dynamic HTML, the Object Model, and new, easy-to-use scripting techniques. Discover how to make the most of cascading style sheets. Compare Microsoft's DHTML implementation with Netscape's JavaScript-accessible Style Sheet (JASS) technology. Learn about Netscape layers and Netscape downloadable fonts. Finally, preview the future of Dynamic HTML -- a future that lets you deliver more interactivity and power on your site than ever before.
ROBERT JON MUDREY is author of several successful computing books.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Great for IE, horrible for Navigator,
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Robert Mudry's book should be renamed "The DHTML Companion for IE". He does an excellent job of describing DHTML for Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but nearly excludes Netscape Navigator completely. That is fine if you are publishing web sites design strictly for IE, however in the real web designers have to accommodate as many browsers as possible. The scope of Mudry's book is too narrowly focused to be useful. Perhaps if he defined what was compatible with the different browsers certain portions of the book would be of use. Finding out that Mudry's scripts don't work in Netscape through errors and crashed browsers is not acceptable. O'Reilly's "Dynamic HTML, the Definitive Reference" is the way to go.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Book does not live up to its title in a key way. .,
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This review is from: The DHTML Companion (Paperback)
Without explicitly saying so, on the cover or in the main part of the text, this book is a one-sided look at DHTML. The cover says that the book covers the Netscape and Microsoft implemetations of DHTML, but this is misleading. Less than 10% of the book is devoted to the Netscape implementation. Readers of this book should be aware that most of the DHTML examples will not work unless one is using Internet Explorer. Had I known this I would not have been as interested in purchasing the book. I would have looked to spend my money on a book that had a good chunk of examples which would work in both Netscape and Explorer. If you are a Web designer, you don't want to alienate visitors to your site by providing interactivity that only works with one of the two major browsers, do you? In my opinion, the book is well written, but I can only guess whether the code examples will work since 1.) I do not use Internet Explorer, although I probably will at some future date, and 2) there were a number of mis-spellings of words in the text, typographic errors, which eroded my confidence about how well the book had been produced. Are there typos in the code examples too? Don't know. With these caveats, I would recommend the book to people seeking to get a handle on the powerful features of DHTML. I gave the book a rating of 6 in order to emphasize how misled I felt when I realized how little this book will help me design web pages for visitors using Netscape. Perhaps in a 2nd edition this capable author will give more space to Netscape. (My apologies for not putting copyright symbols wherever the words Netscape and Microsoft appear in this text. Just imagine they're there so I don't get in trouble, ok?)
5.0 out of 5 stars
Perfect for the Learner,
By "50295" (Germany) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The DHTML Companion (Paperback)
I just got this bok for the Libary, and on looking through I was amazed. Its undoubtedly the best DHTML book I have ver seen. Simply written, assumes very little and quite thorough! Only problem is that much of it is now outdated (The specification has since evolved). So please Mr Mudry hurry up with new edition.If there was a 6 or 7 star rating I would still awárd it. I wish all books were written this way. - Olumide
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