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Dynamic Html Unleashed

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Dynamic Html Unleashed is a once of great DHTML books. But this is clearly not a introduction book. You should have a good HTML and javascript knowladge .

Although this box does cover everything, and is one of the few books to tackle scripting for both Netscape and Microsoft v4 browsers, it has so many oversights, errors and omissions, you'll spend more time working out what is the truth than actually learning stuff.

I'm sure all the information is in this book, but it is so poorly organized that trying to read it is unreasonably difficult. It seems that every chapter was written by a different author and very little was done to coordinate the flow of the book. Throughout the book the authors talk about making scripting for both NS and MSIE but very little attention is paid to teaching you how to write for BOTH platforms. Again, the information is there but you need to work awfully hard to find it.

The book appears very comprehensive, but really needs a quick reference guide on all the elements of dynamic HTML (including scripts and HTML itself).

Although once you go page by page looking for a topic you can find it, the index is one of the lamest I have seen. They should have spent more time on developing it. Unless I can remember seeing a topic someplace in this book, I will choose my others to reference first.

I've seen Peter Belesis' work around, and it is way too confusing and buggy to get any real use out of it. His Hierarchical menus are beautiful, but you never get to see one on your own site because it is so convoluted and screwy!