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Dynamic HTML the Definitive Reference

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By Stephen Chapman, About.com

The Bottom Line
A good reference for all aspects of DHTML but somewhat larger than it really needs to be.
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Pros
  • Covers all parts of DHTML - HTML, CSS, Javascript, DOM
  • Separate sections for each part of DHTML gives the book a logical structure
  • Covers all popular browsers and their quirks
Cons
  • Large sections covering outdated browsers that no one uses any more
Description
  • Third Edition: Published December 2006
  • 1307 page paperback
  • Published by O'Reilly Media Inc
  • ISBN 0-596-52740-3
  • A comprehensive resource for XHTML, CSS, DOM and Javascript
  • Author Danny Goodman
Guide Review - Dynamic HTML the Definitive Reference

Making your web page dynamic means combining HTML, stylesheets, Javascript, the document object model, and possibly Ajax together in order to achieve your desired effect. While there are lots of books around that deal with one or even two of these, the reference books normally only cover one of these areas. This book provides all of the reference material on all these areas in the one place making it much easier to find what you need when creating dynamic web pages.

The author has checked out all of the different combinations is the various popular browsers in order to provide definitive lists of which standard and non-standard tags, attributes, commands, and options work in which versions of which browsers. The only thing really wrong with this book is that the huge amount of information provided makes this an enormous book. As most modern browsers now comply much more closely to the standards and many of the older browsers are no longer used, this book could have been made smaller without reducing its usefulness by removing the information relating to some of the older browsers that were still popular when the second edition came out but which are now no longer used.

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