Overview
If you're a web developer today, you need to keep track of an enormous amount of information. In particular, you need to know the details about a variety of web specifications and their implementation in the latest versions of the popular browsers. Rather than try to remember all of these details or juggle dozens of reference books covering everything from CSS to JavaScript, you can have all the information at your fingertips with the newly revised Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference.
A favorite of web content developers since its first release, this book is an indispensable compendium for web development. Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, 2nd Edition, contains everything you'll need in order to create functional cross-platform web applications. The new edition has been updated to cover the latest specifications, including HTML 4.01, CSS Level 2, DOM Level 2, and JavaScript 1.5, as well as the latest browsers, Internet Explorer 6 (Windows), Internet Explorer 5.1 (Mac), Netscape Navigator 6 and 7, and Mozilla 1.0. You'll learn how these standards and technologies relate to one another and how the creation of Dynamic HTML content relies on these four technologies. The book includes:
- A complete reference for all of the HTML tags, CSS style attributes, document object model attributes, methods, and event handlers, and core JavaScript objects supported by the various standards and the latest versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer.
- Handy cross-referenced indexes that make it easy to find interrelated HTML tags, style attributes, and document object model methods, attributes, and event handlers.
- An advanced introduction to creating dynamic web content that addresses the cross-platform compromises inherent in web page design today and encourages developers to adopt the W3C standards.
Designed for content providers and programmers, this comprehensive guide, reference and compendium explores Web cross-platform development. This 1000-page definitive resource requires familiarity with HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the Document Object Model (DOM) and JavaScript. This is not a tutorial for novice developers.
Synopsis
Packed with information on the latest Web specifications including HTML 4.01, CSS2, DOM Level 2, and Java Script 1.5, this guide also details the latest version of the major browsers.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewWhen it comes to building web sites with Dynamic HTML, much of the information that’s out there is incomplete, inconsistent, out of date, or simply wrong. But DHTML is so valuable that web developers are forging ahead anyway. One of them, Danny Goodman, has gone out and tested literally thousands of unique instances of object properties, methods, event handlers, and attributes in IE, Navigator, and Mozilla. The result is Dynamic HTML, The Definitive Reference, Second Edition -- and it’s indispensable.
Goodman has updated this book for both the latest browsers and the latest specs, including HTML 4.01, CSS Level 2, DOM Level 2, and JavaScript 1.5. He’s brought his legendary doggedness to illuminating the new W3C DOM object models; to scouring Mozilla 1.0 source code and bug reports; and to accurately documenting the proprietary goodies in the latest versions of IE (6.0/Windows and 5.x Mac).
In addition to comprehensive reference material, Goodman presents a seven-chapter introduction walking through the effective use of CSS, element positioning, dynamic content, and scripting events. You’ll especially appreciate his overview of cross-platform strategies and compromises, and his chapter on standardization trends. Things are slowly getting better, but you’ll still wear this book out. Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.