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Summary: Excellent! Excellent! Excellent!
Review: If you develop web sites or web applications, you'd have to be crazy to not buy this book.
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Summary: Excellet - covers information that the pros need to know.
Review: Most books are for starters, but where do you go after that? DHTML is more then just simple script, It's the complete interaction with "ALL" Objects, Properties, Scriptlets, Scripts, etc.This book has explicit reference information on HTML, CSS, DOM, & Javascript and has excelent cross referencing in the end of the book. It gives some good details in the beginning chapters of the book on how to apply DHTML to both leading browsers and offeres a few ways around things that appear simpler then complex operations I have worked with in the past. One thing this book does lack though, is the mentioning of DHTML scriptlets, and vbscript. But for what is supplied, I have little room to complain. This book is worth more then its retail price.
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Summary: Most Excellent!!
Review: Finally!! It was time someone cut through the hype and confusion. This book is a definite must for both the professional and the weekend webmaster. The Document Object Model reference alone is worth the price of the book!
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Summary: Best I have ever seen on dHTML
Review: It covers everything. For a reference it's worth it's weight in gold. Buy it if you ever use HTML, stylesheets (CSS1 and CSS2) or Javascript.
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Summary: This is the one stop source of information on DHTML.
Review: This is the best DHTML Reference that I have seen. If you are already familiar the basics and just need a reference then this is the book for you.
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Summary: VERY useful, almost TOO much information
Review: I bought this book because I wanted to have an information packed resource detailing every vagary in the DHTML-capable browsers of today. Knowing thier track record, I figured I couldn't go wrong with O'Reilly. Well, information is what you get in this baby. Organized quite nice too... if you need to look up a topic, cross reference a method between browsers or whatever you will probably find it; and with a code example. I would say 'definitive' is an understatement. Only beef I have with the book is I wish it had some more explanations of some key features and the usefullness of this technology. The book also puts an emphasis on cross-browser compatibility, so it leaves out some of the in-depth strengths of any particular browser (like data binding *argh*) in favor of discussing ways in which to appeal to both platforms. Over all a very good book!
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Summary: Worth every cent
Review: I bought the first edition of this book a few years ago, and found it the best reference book I every had. In the first chapters, Danny Goodman has an excellent way of explaining the differences between browser versions and the history/reasoning behind them. These chapters in the second revision of the book are a must-read for those who want to clear up their confusion about the "old" Netscape/IE differences and the new standards that Netscape 6+/IE/w3c are finally starting to comply with. For someone into editing HTML/css/JavaScript, I haven't come across a better reference book yet. It is also one of the few books that gives practical hints on creating pages that work on all browsers AND platforms. I admire Danny Goodman for taking on the enormous challenge that writing this book imposed.
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Summary: Every Web Author Should Have One!
Review: As a "reference" book (that is, not a tutorial or manual or *dummies* book) is meant to be used by people already familiar with what they are doing and need a comprehensive source to look something up, this book is the perfect model of a great reference work and belongs on every web deleloper's desk. It offers detailed info on HTML elements, DOM, CSS, and JavaScript. As this is a DHTML reference, the Javascript section is sorely lacking, though. A great feature is that for each element, property and attribute, it tells you which versions of Netscape and IE supports that element. Descriptions and examples are also provided for each entry. It also briefly explains how to use DHTML and cross-platform problems. Another consideration is that since this is such a large reference, it takes a little time to get used to its organization and how to look things up. But this is the one web book I keep referring back to all the time.
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