Overview
Packed with information on the latest web specifications and browser features, this new edition is your ultimate one-stop resource for HTML, XHTML, CSS, Document Object Model (DOM), and JavaScript development. Here is the comprehensive reference for designers of Rich Internet Applications who need to operate in all modern browsers, including Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2, Safari, and Opera.
With this book, you can instantly see browser support for the latest standards-based technologies, including CSS Level 3, DOM Level 3, Web Forms 2.0, XMLHttpRequest for AJAX applications, JavaScript 1.7, and many more. This new edition:
- Provides at-a-glance references for the tags, attributes, objects, properties, methods, and events of HTML, XHTML, CSS, DOM, and core JavaScript. You can quickly look up a particular feature or language term to see if it is available in desired browser brands and versions.
- Includes handy cross referencing that lets you look up an attribute (or object property, method, or event type) to find all the items that recognize it, including interrelated HTML tags, style properties, and document object model methods, properties, and events.
- Offers appendices where you can quickly locate values useful in HTML authoring and scripting. You'll find coverage of commands used across three browsers for user-editable content.
- Includes a glossary that gives you quick explanations of some of the new and potentially confusing terminology of DHTML.
Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference speeds the way to adding sophisticated features to your web pages. Indispensable, complete, and succinct, this bestselling guide is the must-have compendium for all web developers involved in creating dynamic web content.
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 XHTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript—this new edition teaches how to master the Ajax approach to Web application development.
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it comes to building web sites with Dynamic HTML, much of the information that’s out there is incomplete, inconsistent, out of date, or simply wrong.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.