Customer Reviews

DHTML and JavaScript

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

I was very disappointed that this book only covered DHTML (JavaScript and CSS) that worked with Netscape. I was hoping for something that would work in both NS and IE. The one good thing about the book is the author does tell you about Netscape bugs that force you to change the syntax of your JavaScript.

This book teaches Netscape only solutions. What good is that when more than half the browsers out there are not Netscape? Books should offer code that is cross-browser or atleast degrades well. The code in this book caused run-time error after run-time error in Internet Explorer. If you are a big Netscape fan, it does contain tons of code for you. I do not recommend this book if you are a fellow webmaster serving any windows users.

This book does exactly what it says it will do and it's a great resource for anyone who's doing website design. It provides detailed information that is useful for anyone from a beginner to an expert in website design. If you want to learn about cascading style sheets in both CSS and JavaScript, then this is the book for you. It also covers all of the new capabilites of version 1.2 and 1.3 of JavaScript and integrates it into DHTML. It has lots of working examples which illustrate specific concepts that are easy to understand. It also has a substantial number of very practical real-world application examples and the most complex examples are thoroughly explained. I highly reccommend this book to anyone designing web pages, even if you mostly use straight HTML. The HTML primer is a great reference and there are lots of reference sheets from the book that are on the CD-ROM that you can easily print out as a handy memory-jog.

It seems to me that the previous reviewer gave an unwarranted rating which was based on her initial misperception of the purpose of the book. The "Review" information at the site, which was taken from the Back Cover of the book, clearly states that the book was Navigator-oriented.

Just get the book: you'll learn a lot and be glad you did.

This book is a great teacher for javascript and dhtml, i read allot of books, but they always had the difficulty of describing stuff, here its simple, and my friend read it too and he is buying his own copy soon, so i guess its a great gif for your best friend...

The back cover of this book claims "Master the awesome web power of DHTML, style sheets and JavaScript 1.2/1.3!" The only thing you'll master is a JavaScript Debugger. Any professional web designer churning out this quality of worked would be fired. Even a casual user would be disappointed by the amateurish focus on a single (minority) browser. All of the `code' is designed to run in Netscape only, what use is that? The issue of cross browser coding isn't even mentioned. The quality of the examples that do work is dreadful, most of them look like they've been designed in half an hour and make use of embarrassingly dated graphics. Save your money and time.

The outline of the book is not very linear. If you are an experienced web programmer maybe you'll use some of the tables of styles but everything else is hard to find and there's not much detail on how to use the method's. If you're a beginner to Styles and Html the only thing you will use is the little html tutorial at the end of the book.

I do not recommend this book to a person who wishes to buid stylish web pages in an user centered form because it focuses mainly in programming for Netcape 4+ (not NS6).

If you enjoy using the index every 5 minutes buy it otherwise don't !

I didn't actually buy this book, thank god; I got it from the local public library. This has to be one of the most disorienting books I've ever tried to read. The first chapter dives right into syntax, with no explanation of what the stuff being talked about actually *means*. I've only made it a few pages in, and am just going to return it, because flipping through it makes me realize that the rest of it is like this as well.

This may be an excellent book for the experienced user of this technology who needs a reference; unfortunately, that is not what I wanted.

Although this book does contain a reasonable reference to CSS and JavaScript (as implemented by Netscape ONLY), the information is well hidden in this verbose and sometimes misleading if not ocassionally inaccurate volume. The author introduces most topics with descriptions of their syntax, usually failing to get to what the darned things (layers, for example) are actually used for until well into the chapter, by dropping it casually somewhere. I have read hundreds of technical books, and this is by far the most bizarre to date. The author often apologizes that this stuff is (sic) "kinda tricky", but assures you that if you look at the sample code closely you will get idea. I see.

This book only deals with Netscape, but what it does have is nothing short of complete. It is a little hard to follow at times and there could have been more examples to help.I think this book did exactly what it claimed to do, explained DHTML in Netscape.

How stupid it could be.I can't understand why it does not even mention Internet Explorer at all. The content is no better than the javascript Reference,User Guide and dhtml guide provided by Netscape site.Do not waste your money on this stuff.I strongly recommend Dynamic HTML by Danny Goodman. Consulting Danny's book and online documents on websitessuch dealing dhtm such as siteexpeets,webreference msdn and netscape site etc. is sufficient for mastering dhtml. 'Writing Cross-Browser Dynamic Html'by Heather Williamson treats cross browsing issues including NS6.