Dynamic HTML: The HTML Developer's Guide

by Jeff Rule

Book Overview

Because scripting with DHTML is much more complex than with regular HTML, many web developers are hesitant to begin learning this vital technology. Dynamic HTML is a valuable resource to help you... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201379619
• ISBN13: 0785342379617
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.7" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Great book, great examples!

This book contains a wealth of great examples from animations, pull down menus and drag and drop. These examples can be dropped right in your web page or you can use them as a basis to build bigger and better examples. This is NOT a comprehensive reference book, but then I didn't want a dictionary I wanted a "How to book". The site has tons more examples than those listed in the book.. All the book examples worked though a couple of the extras were broken.

Great book for non-programmers

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.

Great Resource!!!!!!!

I undertook the task of teaching myself dHTML as part of my senior thesis project. This book was a great resource to have as I was wading through and figuring out code. It's simple but complete, and it doesn't dumb anything down. Oh, and I got an 'A' on my thesis.

The clearest and most elegant Guide I have yet seen to DHTML

I cannot speak too highly of this book, nor of its accompanying Web Site. I run my own Web Site and, although an amateur, I found HTML and JavaScript reasonably manageable. I confess, however, that I baulked at moving on to DHTML for 4- and 5-level Browsers. It all seemed just too daunting - until I discovered Jeff Rule's excellent 'Dynamic HTML'.The book is beautifully presented and written, and, unlike so many computer and internet textbooks, avoids jargon and that ever-so irritating teenage juvenile style! Moreover, I found it all accessible, and the concepts are built up slowly and sensibly. A key feature is the careful dissection of the Scripts as you move along.The book is absolutely superb on cross-browser and platform problems between Netscape and Internet Explorer (which are too often ignored by Web Masters) and this make the Scripting highly practical. I also found the Scripts to be of genuine value and not just 'nerdy' inventions, especially those dealing with animations, drag and drop, transitions, filters, and menus.The publishers are also to be congratulated on producing a clean, unfussy, adult text, with a simple use of bold and tables. There is a helpful Glossary and two final Chapters on 'The Future' and 'Dynamic HTML Authoring Tools', such as 'Dreamweaver'.All in all, therefore, a model text. The supporting Web Site is just as helpful and is likewise highly recommended. And it all works! Not an Alert anywhere!Thanks to Mr. Rule for a book which genuinely helps the amateur Web Page designer, but doesn't insult her/his intelligence.Philip Stott, London, UK

Great into to DHTML

This is a wonderful book. It is written by the web master who maintains Discovery.com, the Discovery Channel's website. Rather than present thousands of listings for tags and elements, the author steps the reader through a series of exercises which employ real-world examples of handy techniques. These include useful mouse response issues, pop-up/pull-down menus, time sequencing (invoking events at determined intervals), animation, and ActiveX/Java objects usage. These techniques are designed with real-time consideration in mind, and are neither CPU nor bandwidth intensive. By the time you've read this book, you have a nice set of tools which can be combined to enhance your web site while keeping response/load time at a reasonable levels. The author also deals effectively with cross browser considerations. I highly recommend this book as an intro to DHTML.