Customer Reviews

Professional Ie4 Programming

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I work as a Web Programmer since 1997, mainly dealing with Internet Explorer.

There are few references covering Document Object Model and DHTML - The only one is MSDN.
I bought this book in 1997 and still I am keeping this just beside me in my office.
Though lacking up-to-date information, the overall DOM and DHTML scripting have not been changed much and the basics and essentials can be easily referenced in this book. New features? If you know the basics, you can easily get it in MSDN site.

I am sorry that this book is discontinued. I think this book is a must-have for every IE developer.

I appreciate the authors' simple style--direct-to-the-point in simple English (unlike the abstract prose used by experienced programmers who lack the gift of of sharing information in simple terms). The book has lots of examples and screen shots, and with generous lists of properties, methods and events. The indices at the back of the book serves as a reference when done with the entire book. This book is a must in every Web programmer's library.

This book has helped me a lot with designing my web page. It tells you the basics of everything that you can do with ie4. It tells you how to create your own chat rooms and how to create things that will interact with your visitors like Microsoft Agent. This book also has a reference of visual basic so if you do not know anything about visual basic then you can learn from this book or even learn some basics of javascript. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to program with the newest and hottest web browser of '98.

I bought this one day and returned it the next. After reviewing it I realized it was not going to help me much. I was looking for stuff which was coming out in the 2nd release of Active Server Pages by Alex Homer. It also looks like Alex Homer will release another book in April that will be called "Professional Asp and Rds Database Programming". I am holding out for these. Most books by Alex Homer are excellent.

When I bought this book over three months ago I thought that it was a little 'dry' and did not invite the reader to explore its inner sections.

However, as I gradually became more experienced with IE4 I began to use the book more and more: so much so that I even took it home from work to read in the evenings.

Some say that buying a book for the second time is a good indication that a book is of a high quality, or at least greatly needed. Well, since I left my original copy of the book on a plane last week, I am now going to buy a second copy of the book. Enough said.

A fine book for Intranet development - a seriously flawed effort for Internet work. All material is covered using VB script, which is utterly worthless if your trying to develop a site that works with both Navigator and MSIE. Though you can complete every task discussed in this book with either VB or JavaScript, the authors summarily dismiss JavaScript. Don't purchase this book if you plan to develop sites that work across the browser divide!

The reader from Raleigh, NC obviously didn't read the title of the book before purchasing. This is an "IE4" book, not a Netscape, or any other third-rate browser book. If you want cross-browser support, than DON'T buy a book that is named "IE4 Programming".

I though that this book gave decent coverage and was worth the $.