VBScript for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)

by Paul Thurrott (Author)

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Product Description
For the thousands of Web enthusiasts who got their feet wet with the simple tagging language of HTML, VBScript is the next step. VBScript (also known as Visual Basic Script) is a simple scripting language designed to make HTML more powerful and interactive. With VBScript you can link and automate a wide variety of objects in Web pages, including ActiveX Controls and Java "applets." While other VBScript books are intended for experienced programmers, this one is for the vast majority of HTML coders who are less technically sophisticated but still would like a useful introduction and handy reference. At the same time, this book will be useful as a quick reference for the many Visual Basic programmers out there that Microsoft is pushing to use VBScript as the Web scripting language the already know.

Product Details

• Paperback: 142 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press (October 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201688921
• ISBN-13: 978-0201688924
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,065,428 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a book for Programmers!!, December 6, 1997

By	Pat Brown ([e-mail]) (Austin Texas) - See all my reviews

Do not be deceived by the thickness of this book(it is rather thin). This book has told me more about what I NEEDED TO KNOW about using VBScript than all the others I have checked out. No other book that I have seen showed the form.submit method or how to return the trap the contents coming out of of a combo box. Too many of these books concentrate too much on all the theory and are not written like "I wonder how I can do this or that". I just wish I would have found this book first. I guess I'm saying is BUY THIS BOOK if you want to learn VB Script by good examples.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good starting book if you can tolerate all the errors., July 14, 1998

By A Customer

This is a decent book for getting started on VBScript and very basic HTML. Make sure you know HTML or have a good reference handy since there are enough typos and mistakes to really frustrate a beginner. (The CD that comes with Laura Lemay's ActiveX and VBScript contains an HTML book that got me through.)

I downgraded the score mostly due to the typos in the code like missing quotes and such. The section on Frames gives step by step instructions but leaves out a vital part while not explaining things very well. The book was obviously never proofed by someone who didn't know the subject and that is the target audience. It's not an HTML book, but if the instructions are there, they should be correct.

The sample code is available from a web site and the first one I copied did not work due to careless typos in the script code. I found it highly annoying.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too many errors in sample codes..., November 12, 1998

By A Customer

Visual Quickstart Guides are generally comprehensive and easy on the eyes. However, I found too many errors in the sample codes of Thurrott's book to warrant anything above 2 stars!! Thank my lucky stars(!) that I am familiar with VB5 and VBA to correct most of the code "on the spot" while trying out the samples. All in all, this could have been a good book, but from all the frustrations in correcting the errors, I suggest that no one buys this book until the author uses a spell checker and/or at least goes through the book a second time to debug his own sample codes.