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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Hey dont even bother with this book. It is a complete waste of a tree unless you are a complete beginner and love Bill Gates. (cuz they will try and brainwash u). Basically, this book says here is a cool dhtml property that works in exploder but not the other ones please look at the microsoft web page or look at the cd that comes with this to see it.What a pile of trash. We want to be able to have a book that can use both netscape and explorer. Not say what netsape4 cant do. Anyways netscape 6 is already out in alpha and this book is completely out of date. Plus this book was written before ie5 so it doesnt even address the newest ie correctly. it was written when it was in beta and he really doesnt have a good understanding of the power. He only knows netscape 4 doesnt have it. The reader is left to do all his homework going to netscapes main page to see what can work. If u want to learn dhtml buy danny goodman and jeff rouyers books!
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Summary: Good training for beginners and information for advanced
Review: I disagree that this book covers only the very basic. It begins with a great overview of HTML (though I'm a pretty good web programmer, I read the HTML chapters and found some things that I did not know before)and then covers scripting quite well. It also has a good overview of css, including some screenshot differences between how IE and Netscape display styles. After this, it gets into more esoteric subjects like data binding, scriptlets, and font embedding. It also has a chapter or so for XML, talks about javascript error handling, and has a big section on cross browser coding. I liked this book-I thought it was very well written. It definitely wasn't a hard core reference-but it points you to specific places in all sorts of real references, most on the net, though it also recommends some real reference books.
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Summary: If you've had trouble gettin JavaScript - this is your book!
Review: The simple fact is: Internet Explorer 4.0 and later now owns more than 80% of the browser market. Because of this, the books focus on the browser is not necessarily a bad thing. Plus, it's a Microsoft book - anyone who buys it thinking it will cater completely to Netscape Navigator is fooling themself. Eitherway, this book is amazing for people wanting to begin their quest on learning DHTML. Though I have been professionally designing web pages for years, I have been forced to focus on ASP driven pages or static HTML pages. JavaScript has consistently alluded my understanding. VBScript was easy. JavaScript has never made much sense and I have lost interest in learning it, book after book. However, this book teaches you unbelievably well. I was literally JOYED to see the way that this book was explaining things to me, ONE event, one action, one attribute at a time. It was so refreshing to have things slowly doled out to you rather than be tossed in over your head, gasping for air. If you don't know much about JavaScript/DHTML and are interested in learning - this is your book. Pick it up immediately. Yes, it's older, but the foundation it gives you is wonderful.
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Summary: If you've had trouble gettin JavaScript - this is your book!
Review: The simple fact is: Internet Explorer 4.0 and later now owns more than 80% of the browser market. Because of this, the books focus on the browser is not necessarily a bad thing. Plus, it's a Microsoft book - anyone who buys it thinking it will cater completely to Netscape Navigator is fooling themself. Eitherway, this book is amazing for people wanting to begin their quest on learning DHTML. Though I have been professionally designing web pages for years, I have been forced to focus on ASP driven pages or static HTML pages. JavaScript has consistently alluded my understanding. VBScript was easy. JavaScript has never made much sense and I have lost interest in learning it, book after book. However, this book teaches you unbelievably well. I was literally JOYED to see the way that this book was explaining things to me, ONE event, one action, one attribute at a time. It was so refreshing to have things slowly doled out to you rather than be tossed in over your head, gasping for air. If you don't know much about JavaScript/DHTML and are interested in learning - this is your book. Pick it up immediately. Yes, it's older, but the foundation it gives you is wonderful.
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Summary: for non-programmers who has never heard of DHTML
Review: This book assumes that you have never programmed before and never heard of DHTML. With this assumption in mind, it waste the first half of the book with very, very basic (basic!) material. However, if you are the total novice, this is a well written book for you with a slant toward Microsoft Technology. If you are an intermediate scripter, you won't learn much at all.
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Summary: Excellent Coverage of DHTML
Review: This book is very good. It covers cross-browser web solutions very nicely. Breaks down every piece of the code for easy understanding. I recommend this book to webmasters who develop for Netscape and Microsoft browsers.
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Summary: Even better than the first edition!
Review: This edition provides way better coverage of working cross-browser. It looks like the authors put a lot of thought into creating samples that worked in both browsers wherever possible, and told us why when a sample didn't. I thought that the writing was excellent and very accessible, both to novices and more advanced programmers. It includes lots of sample code (on the cd along with some tools and extensive references). This book has a lot more information than the first edition. It also includes a bunch of new IE5-specific stuff, like behaviors. All in all, a great book to learn DHTML.
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Summary: Best I've Found
Review: This is the best book for learning HTML that I have found. Leave it to Microsoft to let it go out of print and replace it with crappy titles that mainly shill for Microsoft products.
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