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Dynamic HTML for Dummies
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by Michael I. Hyman
Sales Rank: 1529553
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Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Hungry Minds; 2 edition 1999
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764504673
ISBN-13: 978-0764504679
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.4 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Product Review
Dynamic HTML for Dummies explains how to take advantage of the decorative and functional HTML enhancements that Microsoft Internet Explorer can display. This book does a fine job of introducing Web developers to Microsoft's additions to the standard Web publishing language.
In Dynamic HTML for Dummies, readers are exposed to filters, cascading style sheets, and event-driven interactivity. Rather than document Dynamic HTML (DHTML) fully, this book presents a sort of "best of" collection, revealing the code behind the DHTML tricks that interest most publishers. As a result, it contains the HTML recipes for many effects you've seen on the Web.
While JScript greatly influences the creation of DHTML documents, Hyman refrains from making his book a comprehensive scripting text. Instead, he presents only the components of JScript necessary for writing DHTML event handlers and animations. He leaves detailed coverage of the language to more specialized books. Readers should walk away with a decent grasp of the DHTML object model, ready to explore it in greater depth.
The main shortcoming of Dynamic HTML for Dummies derives from its focus on Internet Explorer 4.x, now outmoded by version 5. The good news is that much of the material carries over to the new release. --David Wall
Book Description
Ready to move up to the next big phase in Web site development and add new levels of interactivity to your Web pages? Make the jump to Dynamic HTML, the latest online innovation that's become a part of the newest versions of the popular Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator Web browsers.
Dynamic HTML adds more interactivity and sophistication to the Web than ever before. With DHTML and the second edition of Dynamic HTML For Dummies, you can find helpful advice on using multimedia to enhance a page's look and feel with audio, animations, synchronized activities and behaviors, and background sequences. Add new styles and interactive controls; get user input by creating buttons, check boxes, option boxes, and message boxes. Make your pages respond quickly to user events without huge downloads or frequent trips to the server, and add Cascading Style Sheets for new levels of interactivity and a consistent look across your Web pages.
Dynamic HTML For Dummies, 2nd Edition, includes a valuable CD-ROM with all the code and examples from the book, along with shareware or evaluation versions of HTML, audio, and graphics editors.
Customer Reviews & Comments
The number of examples in this book that don't work in one browser or another is astonishing. While this is in the nature of html, it makes the book rather useless for development of an internet site. For development of an INTRAnet set, where MS Explorer can be enforced, it's not bad. Better proof-reading of the CD that contains the examples would have been helpful. Some of the scripts needed editing to enable them to conform to the filenames on the disk.
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