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Summary: This book is full of errors but the concept is nice.
Review: The quick start idea is nice as it lets you wade right in and get your feet wet. The only problem is that this book has so many typos and errors in the code that it is confusing. Hasn't peach pit heard of checking for errors before publishing?
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Summary: Clear and informative education on DHTML
Review: This book carries on the excellence of Mr. Teague's book on frames. He not only explains what will work, but is very explicit in telling us what different browsers do, or don't do, with a given CSS. His instruction technique is excellent and doesn't leave the reader wondering where they got lost.If there is a weak point, it is that he doesn't stress the weaknesses of the various browsers in using style sheets. The test site he references in the appendix is informative but disturbing when Netscape and IE are both found sadly weak in some areas. The facts are clear, however, that DHTML is here to stay and this has become my main source of reference.
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Summary: Wait for the second edition to come out
Review: This book is full of so many typos, it makes learning from it a nightmare. A second edition is supposed to be released, so I recommend to wait. This edition I hope will be more up to date and with less mistakes.
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Summary: Really an Intermediate Level Book
Review: This book is not truely for beginners. I would suggest a good book on JavaScript (for those sketchy in this area), an then a good book on HTML (again for those beginning to learn to Web program). DHTML is a combination of intermediate to advanced HTML and JavaScript. Now with that said, this book does a good job presenting DHTML clearly. Here is a list of some of the topics covered: Cascading Style Sheets (basics, fonts, text control, properties, margins, borders, positioning, ad-nausium...), DOM (Document Object Model), Dynamic Techniques/Solutions, JavaScript and DHTML, Layers (a real biggy for me), and Visual Controls. Both Netscape and the ubiquitous Internet Explorer are covered (with a couple of chapters specific to their uniqueness). Appendices include: CSS Quick Reference, Layers QR, and Resources. The book is rounded out with an excellent index. I especially liked all of the cross-browser information (comments, code techniques, what would work and what wouldn't, how to adapt). I would have liked to have seen more on JavaScript integration with visual controls, but oh well. In addition, more information on CSS techniques with JavaScript would have been nice, and when dealing with IE it would have been terrific to have had some VBScript comparison code. Overall, I would recommend this book for the serious web programmer's shelf.
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Summary: For the truly un-initiated...
Review: This book is useful only if you have NO idea about DHTML; and even then, it will take you only a couple of days to get through this book. Clearly, it is not intended as a detailed reference but still, there is precious little content you will need to refer back to (and even if you wanted to, it is not very easy to find what you're looking for). If you're like me, you need more substance to back up concepts and this book just doesn't seem to have it. Keep looking.
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Summary: You get your money's worth.(basically nothing!)
Review: This book is very inexpensive and it shows in the content. It goes through almost entirely the whole book teaching you the ultimate basics for CSS and doesn't go into teaching you to use these effects dynamically, which is ironically the title of the book. I'm going to look into DHTML by Danny Goodman. I've read his JavaScript book and it teaches everything you could possibly need.
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Summary: You get your money's worth.(basically nothing!)
Review: This book is very inexpensive and it shows in the content. It goes through almost entirely the whole book teaching you the ultimate basics for CSS and doesn't go into teaching you to use these effects dynamically, which is ironically the title of the book. I'm going to look into DHTML by Danny Goodman. I've read his JavaScript book and it teaches everything you could possibly need.
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Summary: Best Book I've Seen to Cut Through the Cross-Browser Problem
Review: This book may not be perfect but it is the BEST I've found to write cross-browser DHTML! If you want an understanding about what works and what doesn't for your pages within the browser wars then read this book!
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Summary: Nice book
Review: This book really teaches DHTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). It is very clear in it's explanations and provides some real world scripts. However, there are some big bugs in the script; the author obviously did not use IE on Windows.
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Summary: A good book for someone familiar with HTML.
Review: This is a good book for someone that is familiar to HTML and wants to add some DHTML to their web pages. It is not a full reference book for JAVASCRIPT, but gives you the basics needed to get started using DHTML. The book teaches you about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) from what theyare to how to set up an internal CSS, a linked CSS and an imported CSS. It goes through CSS Fonts, text control, margins and borders, positioning, and background colors and properties. One of the things I liked about this book is that for each section it shows samples of the actual code and screen shots of what the code produces in the browser. It also tells you what code works both in IE and in Netscape and has separate chapters for each browser's specific code. Finally the book has an excellent index and appendixes outlining code and code properties. All in all this is a good book for someone starting out in DHTML but not for the expert.
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