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Summary: Great book, great examples!
Review: 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.
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Summary: Magnficent Book and Site
Review: This book is a how-to-do-it manual of DHTML. The preface and first 2 chapters give some very interesting background into what DHTML is, how it was developed, and why developers have to work so hard to make pages cross-browser compatible. Subsequent chapters discuss mouseovers, transitions, resizing graphics, pull-down menus, drag-and-drop, animations, and sequencing. The author assumes that the user has a basic knowledge of the components of DHTML: HTML, cascading style sheets, and JavaScript. He gives the complete HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code for each example, together with a brief description of how each chunk of the code fits together. Users who are not familiar with all the components of DHTML may find the descriptions too terse to follow. Unlike many Web designers who assume they can dictate to their users what browser and platform they must use, Rule has had to go out of his way in his work for the Discovery Channel to make his designs work on all conceivable browsers. For this reason, he devotes a great deal of energy to explaining differences between browsers and how to make each task work on different browsers. The usual structure for each chapter is first a brief introduction to the task (such as animations), a description of what the task does, technical limits, underlying technology, and finally examples. The examples section always includes separate sections for how to make the design work in Internet Explorer, in Netscape, and cross-platform. The actual example scripts are not as clear as they could be. They are all presented in courier-bold with line numbers and no indentation. Although this certainly makes them easy to distinguish, they can be rather fatiguing to read. One very useful feature of the book is its glossary, where technical terms such as "object detection" or "sprite control" are defined in clear language. The book has also a companion Website where sample code can be downloaded.
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Summary: Expert secrets
Review: This book is a how-to-do-it manual of DHTML. The preface and first 2 chapters give some very interesting background into what DHTML is, how it was developed, and why developers have to work so hard to make pages cross-browser compatible. Subsequent chapters discuss mouseovers, transitions, resizing graphics, pull-down menus, drag-and-drop, animations, and sequencing. The author assumes that the user has a basic knowledge of the components of DHTML: HTML, cascading style sheets, and JavaScript. He gives the complete HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code for each example, together with a brief description of how each chunk of the code fits together. Users who are not familiar with all the components of DHTML may find the descriptions too terse to follow. Unlike many Web designers who assume they can dictate to their users what browser and platform they must use, Rule has had to go out of his way in his work for the Discovery Channel to make his designs work on all conceivable browsers. For this reason, he devotes a great deal of energy to explaining differences between browsers and how to make each task work on different browsers. The usual structure for each chapter is first a brief introduction to the task (such as animations), a description of what the task does, technical limits, underlying technology, and finally examples. The examples section always includes separate sections for how to make the design work in Internet Explorer, in Netscape, and cross-platform. The actual example scripts are not as clear as they could be. They are all presented in courier-bold with line numbers and no indentation. Although this certainly makes them easy to distinguish, they can be rather fatiguing to read. One very useful feature of the book is its glossary, where technical terms such as "object detection" or "sprite control" are defined in clear language. The book has also a companion Website where sample code can be downloaded.
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Summary: Excellent primer on DHTML
Review: This book is a refreshing change from other texts on DHTML and Javascript. It provides a practical taste of the core subject areas without overwhelming the reader with excessive detail. Advantages and disadvantages of both Netscape and IE are covered while at the same time avoiding taking sides in the browser war. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Indispensable
Review: This book is indispensable in navigating the complexities of Dynamic HTML. Using clear explanations illustrated with rich examples, Jeff Rule helps web developers transcend the vagaries of differing browser implementations and produce compelling, truly dynamic web content.
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Summary: Perfect book for those who learn by example
Review: This book is perfect for me because I can use it as a reference, and a tutorial. I am person that learns best by example, so this book is perfect. If you learn best by explanation, this book is defenitly not for you.
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Summary: Excellent and to the point
Review: This has to be one of the best development books I have read over the many years I've been involved in development. I wanted something that told me about the subject immediately and didn't spend half the book telling irrelevant stuff that I already knew. So many books cover things that should already been known by the reader that it was refreshing to get straight into the workings of DHTML. The examples provided at the web site certainly help in the understanding. The other big area this book scores in is the cross browser issues, someting not properly covered by others. If you want to know more about DHTML get this book, browse through it and get on with the real work.
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Summary: Great into to DHTML
Review: 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.
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Summary: Great book for non-programmers
Review: 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.
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Summary: Dynamic HTML: The HTML Developer's Guide
Review: This is one of the best books I have read on DHTML. It is easy to read and full of very useful code examples. I would highly recommend it to anyone wishing to learn DHTML. It would be a good reference book to keep on your shelf as well.
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