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DHTML Index - DHTML Book :
Dynamic Html: The Html Developer's Guide
Dynamic Html: The Html Developer's Guideby Jeff Rule, Jeffrey S. RulePaperback: 288 pages Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co ISBN: 0201379619; 1st edition (November 1998) This brief guide to Dynamic HTML (DHTML) focuses on what you can do with DHTML rather than the history and evolution of markup languages. Author Jeff Rule has compiled his knowledge from his work on the Discovery Channel Online site into a quick reference that lists ways to spice up your Web pages. The book begins with a very quick overview of the various technologies and standards that comprise DHTML and a peek at the Netscape, Microsoft, and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Models. Rule then explains cascading style sheets (CSS), with a welcome focus on how they work in today's browsers. The book continues with a series of chapters devoted to the various tricks you can perform with DHTML: navigation effects, transitions and filters, resizing graphics, and pull-down and pop-up menus. Throughout these chapters, the author provides links to example Web sites, including his own comprehensive site. Animations, drag and drop, timelines, and sequencing are also covered with a balanced discussion of the Netscape and Microsoft approaches to each. The author then devotes a chapter to the ActiveX multimedia controls in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 and another to the sticky issue of font management. The book concludes with explanations of how to utilize push technology, a preview of the version 5 browsers, and thoughts on the future direction of the Web. If you want to skip the lengthy tutorials and dive right into DHTML, this is the book for you. From Book News, Inc.: Interactive developer Rule provides a readable reference guide and tutorial for the HTML developer seeking to progress to Dynamic HTML and JavaScript. The book is based on the premise that the best way to learn how to write code is through taking apart other people's work, and it therefore contains extensive demonstrations for line- by-line deconstruction. Each chapter begins with a synopsis of the material and a list of relevant links for further review. Topics covered include cross(r)platform... Customer Reviews Reviewer: Kristin Rule from Arlington, VA this is an excellent book for web developers or producers who know little about programming. Hence, the name "The Html Developer's Guide". This book is written for people who know HTML in their sleep, but want to add some pizazz to their static web site. It has examples that you can plug right into your web page. Jeff clearly explains what each line of code is doing and how to integrate it into your HTML. Even though this book is easy to understand and read, a programming guru will find it useful as well. It has useful javascripts that anyone could use on their site. I highly recommend this book to people who are good html coders, but want their site to do more. Reviewer: pgreffe@erols.com from Reston, Virginia I found this book to be a useful tool, which I think is the highest praise you can offer for a programming book. The book is not a DHTML reference but instead focuses on how to do specific things which is just what I like as a programmer. The chapters are cleanly organized into specific topics and techniques with good, cut and paste, source code. Jeff Rule clearly explains the sample source code and highlights the important pieces that make it work. He also does an excellent job with cross-platform issues by showing the reader how to implement these techniques in Explorer and Netscape. The only negative I have is not having a CD of the source code in the book but instead having to look on his web site. The web site is nice but not easy to access from home with one telephone line. A CD would have been much easier. In addition, the site makes extensive use of transitions which are extremely annoying and have no purpose other than to showcase the author's ability and make pages appear slower. All in all though, a good book. Reviewer: R. Tenzaki from Honolulu, HI United States Good how-to guide for quick applications of DHTML. Good use of sample code. However, some techniques are dated because this book is a few yrs. ago. Good base intro.... Not a comprehensive reference book to DHTML. For that, get Dynamic HTML Definitive Guide by Goodman, O'Rielly. Recommend as a great primer to DHTML. Reviewer: A reader from Miami, Florida WoW! Excellent book and the siet is ten times the size of the book. Jeff has posted lots of examples that go beyond what he talks about in the book. BUY IT! |
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