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The Dhtml Companion
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by Robert J. Mudry
Sales Rank: 5165658
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$0.44
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Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1st edition December 30, 1997
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0137960468
ISBN-13: 978-0137960460
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Product Review
This no-nonsense guide to the new Dynamic HMTL (DHTML) standard covers all the essentials, with good coverage of DHTML as used on both the Microsoft and Netscape browsers. First, the author describes what DHTML is, while concentrating on three areas: cascading style sheets (for controlling fonts and styles), an improved scripting language (with better support for events), and a Document Object Model (DOM), which allows programmatic access to all on-screen elements. This book is good at explaining the tug-of-war between Netscape and Microsoft for defining the new DHTML standard.
This text looks at programming with screen elements and event handling. Next, it turns to the object model used to access all screen and browser elements. A discussion of style sheets comes later, only after the fundamentals have been explained. The author then proceeds to look at some of the differences in DHTML between Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape's browser.
There are many references to HTML and DHTML, but The DHTML Companion provides a logical and engaging presentation of all the essentials without overwhelming the reader with every new tag and detail. Many samples of DHTML are also included to get you writing DHTML yourself. --Richard Dragan
Book Info
Provides the most comprehensive coverage of the Document Object Model. Includes extensive examples. Covers both Microsoft and Netscape implementation. Paper. DLC: DHTML (Document markup language)
Customer Reviews & Comments
Robert Mudry's book should be renamed "The DHTML Companion for IE". He does an excellent job of describing DHTML for Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but nearly excludes Netscape Navigator completely. That is fine if you are publishing web sites design strictly for IE, however in the real web designers have to accommodate as many browsers as possible. The scope of Mudry's book is too narrowly focused to be useful. Perhaps if he defined what was compatible with the different browsers certain portions of the book would be of use. Finding out that Mudry's scripts don't work in Netscape through errors and crashed browsers is not acceptable. O'Reilly's "Dynamic HTML, the Definitive Reference" is the way to go.
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