Danny Goodman felt that he couldn't trust any of the documentation on Dynamic HTML (DHTML) that he read (too many contradictions), so he wrote this book as a reference for working with his own clients. After testing tags and techniques on multiple releases of the main browsers, Goodman came up with very practical information--some of which you may not find in any other resource.

Goodman assumes a solid foundation, if not expertise, in basic HTML and an understanding of what DHTML is all about. From those assumptions, he presents a meaty, information-dense volume. The first of the book's four sections discusses industry standards and how to apply the basic principles of DHTML. He emphasizes the differences in Web browsers and discusses how to build pages so that they work well in both Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. The second section is an extensive, quick reference of all the tags, objects, and properties of HTML, cascading style sheets, Document Object Model, and core JavaScript. A particularly handy cross-reference guide to this information follows, helping you locate it in alternate ways. The final section contains appendices, with useful tables of values and commands. --Elizabeth Lewis


Book Description
Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, 2nd Edition, is an indispensable compendium for web development. The new edition has been updated to cover the latest specifications, including HTML 4.01, CSS Level 2, DOM Level 2, and JavaScript 1.5, as well as the latest browsers, Internet Explorer 6 (Windows), Internet Explorer 5.1 (Mac), Netscape Navigator 6 and 7, and Mozilla 1.0. The book contains everything you need in order to create functional cross-platform web applications, including: A complete reference for all of the HTML tags, CSS style attributes, document object model attributes, methods, and event handlers, and core JavaScript objects supported by the various standards and the latest versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer. Handy cross-referenced indexes that make it easy to find interrelated HTML tags, style attributes, and document object model entities. An advanced introduction to creating dynamic web content that addresses the cross-platform compromises inherent in web page design today.


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If you are a Web content developer these days, you have a lot of information to keep track of. You need to stay current on the relevant Web specifications, like HTML, CSS, DOM, and ECMAScript. You also need to know how the latest Web browsers from Netscape and Microsoft actually implement these standards, since browser implementations of the standards are less than perfect. Right now, you're forced to keep multiple reference books open on your desk (or multiple browser windows open on your screen), just to develop a simple dynamic Web page that works properly under both Navigator and Internet Explorer. Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference changes all that. This book is an indispensable compendium for Web content developers. It contains everything you need to create functional cross-platform Web applications, including: o A complete reference for all of the HTML tags, CSS style attributes, browser document objects, and JavaScript objects supported by the various standards and the latest versions of Navigator and Internet Explorer. Browser compatibility is emphasized throughout; the reference pages clearly indicate browser support for every entity. o Handy cross-reference indexes that make it easy to find interrelated HTML tags, style attributes, and document objects. o An advanced introduction to creating dynamic Web content that addresses the cross-platform compromises inherent in Web page design today. If you have some experience with basic Web page creation, but are new to the world of dynamic content, Dynamic HTML : The Definitive Reference will jump-start your development efforts. If you are an experienced Web programmer, you'll find the browser-compatibility information invaluable. This book is the only DHTML reference that a Web developer needs.


Book Info
Thoroughly updated with over 1100 pages on today's evolving web standards, making this an indispensable volume for anyone creating interactive web applications and content. Softcover. Previous edition c1998.

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The Barnes & Noble Review
When it comes to building web sites with Dynamic HTML, much of the information that￯﾿ﾽs out there is incomplete, inconsistent, out of date, or simply wrong. But DHTML is so valuable that web developers are forging ahead anyway. One of them, Danny Goodman, has gone out and tested literally thousands of unique instances of object properties, methods, event handlers, and attributes in IE, Navigator, and Mozilla. The result is Dynamic HTML, The Definitive Reference, Second Edition -- and it￯﾿ﾽs indispensable.

Goodman has updated this book for both the latest browsers and the latest specs, including HTML 4.01, CSS Level 2, DOM Level 2, and JavaScript 1.5. He￯﾿ﾽs brought his legendary doggedness to illuminating the new W3C DOM object models; to scouring Mozilla 1.0 source code and bug reports; and to accurately documenting the proprietary goodies in the latest versions of IE (6.0/Windows and 5.x Mac).

In addition to comprehensive reference material, Goodman presents a seven-chapter introduction walking through the effective use of CSS, element positioning, dynamic content, and scripting events. You￯﾿ﾽll especially appreciate his overview of cross-platform strategies and compromises, and his chapter on standardization trends. Things are slowly getting better, but you￯﾿ﾽll still wear this book out. Bill Camarda

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.

ANNOTATION

Designed for content providers and programmers, this comprehensive guide, reference and compendium explores Web cross-platform development. This 1000-page definitive resource requires familiarity with HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the Document Object Model (DOM) and JavaScript. This is not a tutorial for novice developers.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

As a web developer, you need to keep track of an enormous amount of information. In particular, you need to know the details about a variety of web specifications and their implementation in the latest versions of the popular browsers. Rather than try to remember all of these details or juggle dozens of reference books covering everything from CSS to JavaScript, you can have all the information at your fingertips with the newly revised Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference. If you have experience with basic web page creation, but are new to the world of dynamic content, Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference will jump-start your development efforts. If you're an experienced web programmer, you'll find the browser-compatibility information invaluable. This book is the only DHTML reference a web developer needs.

SYNOPSIS

This book is an indispensable compendium for web content developers. It contains everything you need to create functional, cross-platform web applications, including a complete reference for all of the HTML tags, CSS style attributes, browser document objects, and core JavaScript objects supported by the various standards and the latest versions of Navigator and Internet Explorer. Browser compatibility is emphasized throughout. The reference pages clearly indicate browser support for every entity; handy cross-reference indexes make it easy to find interrelated HTML tags, style attributes, and document objects; and an advanced introduction to creating dynamic web content addresses the cross-platform compromises inherent in web page design today.

AUTHOR DESCRIPTION

Danny Goodman has been an active participant on the editorial side of the personal computer and consumer electronics revolutions since the late 1970s. His articles in the field have appeared in some of the most prestigious general audience publications and he has written dozens of feature articles for leading computer publications, such as PC Magazine, PC World, Macworld, and MacUser. He is currently a monthly columnist for Netscape Communication's online developer newsletter, View Source.

Danny is also the author of more than two dozen books on computing and information superhighway technologies. The Complete HyperCard Handbook, published by Bantam Books in August 1987, claimed honors as the bestselling Macintosh book and fastest selling computer book in the history of the industry. That book is now in its fourth edition and has been translated into more than a half-dozen languages. His HyperCard Handbook and HyperCard Developer's Guide have both received Best Product-Specific Book awards from the Computer Press Association (1987 and 1988, respectively). Danny Goodman's Macintosh Handbook (1993), a radical departure from traditional computer books, won Danny's third CPA award.

To keep up to date on the needs of World Wide Web developers for his recent books and Netscape articles, Danny is also a programming and design consultant to some of the industry's top intranet application development groups.