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Instant Dynamic HTML Programmer's Reference: NC4 Edition
Publisher:
Wrox
Author: Alex Homer and Chris Ullman
ISBN: 1-861001-19-3
Publication Date: Aug 97
Retail Price: $24.95
It's starting to be that time. You know what I mean...it's been around a while now, at least in Web time. I'm talking about Dynamic HTML of course. It's no longer the newest thing on the block, so to speak, and if you don't know how to use it, it's about time to learn, as your customers will soon be wondering why you aren't using it. Now before you jump into Dynamic HTML, you really should know your basic HTML, and, hey, a little JavaScript would be very useful.
What kind of things can you do with Dynamic HTML? How about the ability to use:
- Cascading Style Sheets for greater control over the appearance of a page
- absolute positioning of elements and layering to position elements on a page exactly where you want them, and create slick effects as they cruise into place
- the document object model to provide more programability for elements on a page
- dynamically re-draw any or all parts of the page without re-loading the entire page
- new event handling techniques - event capturing lets you pass event from one object to another
- dynamic fonts - make and use your own fonts, which users will download as they now do images
- canvas mode - lets you take over the whole screen
Alex and Chris' book, Instant Dynamic HTML Programmer's Reference: NC 4 Edition, takes the reader through the history of Dynamic HTML, the changes which have recently been made to the specs, and then it jumps right into the "how-to" of the code. They cover Style Sheets and Dynamic Fonts, Positioning HTML Elements, the Browser Object, the Document Object, Scripts and Event Handling, Working with Layers, Browser Compatibility and the Future of HTML. The book also features an extansive appendix of Properties, Methods and Events, Dynamic HTML tags, common HTML tags, HTML colors, and more.
This book probably wouldn't be of much benefit to those who are content to work with standard HTML, or those who exclusively use WYSIWYG HTML software to code their pages. Although they would benefit from knowing what's to come in HTML, most software companies have not implemented Dynamic HTML into their HTML editor software, so they would have to get in there and manually code the pages (don't you love it!). But if you're not looking back, and you want to stay on the top of the Web pack, don't let this book slip by. Buy yourself a copy, learn Dynamic HTML, make some mind-blowing pages, and then send us the URL so we can all fire up the latest browser and be amazed!
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