Html Dynamic

Dynamic HTML Black Book: The Web Professional's Guide to Using and Interacting with Dynamic HTML

Format: Paperback
Author: Natanya Pitts-Moultis
ReleaseDate: 26 February, 1998
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Rating:

Dynamic HTML is less than Useless
The material is Netscape 4 and Internet Exploder specific. This book is severaly outdated. Nowhere, will users get adequate information about developing DHTML using W3C standards (DOM1, DOM2, CSS1, and CSS2). As Netscape 6, Opera 5, and Internet 5 support these new standards, any web pages developed from this book's material will not work across all browsers, and instead will be glued onto Microsoft or obsoleted versions of Netscape.

The book offers mounds of general information about HTML and HTML technology, but does not offer any code snippets to illustrate the concepts, except for the seldom few places here and there.

Towards the end of the book are dumps of source code. This is an utter waste of precious trees. This material could have just been put on the CD. There are no code walkthroughs of the material, so one wonders if the authors are going for the paid per word/page/etc.

There are those books out there that are full of fluff and are good to stuff a bookshelf in the bookstore, and then there are those books that are a rare gem of enlightenment. This book leans more towards the fluff.

700 pages thick, but only worth reading 100
But I was wrong, very wrong. At first I thought that I have bought the best book about DHTML that would launch me to a more advanced use of DHTML. The book is hard to read, the examples are never really explained from line to line and the CD-ROM is worthless. I have spent a lot of money on this book and recieved nothing. I am now thinking of buying a nother book. Although there are some usefull information in it, but not as much as I thought.

Very technical \/ | CrossBrowser /\
The book includes very technical information of many technologies (IE related and Netscape related). I think this book is indicated for web developers. There are many cool examples and source code, Not all are fully explained.