Html Dynamic

Dynamic Html: A Primer

Format: Paperback
Author: Simon St. Laurent
ReleaseDate: August, 1997
Publisher: Mis Pr
Rating:

Not very useful as a reference
Reading it is like learning about what is possible, but you can't learn everything about DHTML. I think this book was valuable when I was just learning about DHTML. The author really just provides examples of what you can do, but he won't show you everything. Keep in mind that this book was published back when the then current version if Internet Explorer was (I thought) the best implementation of DHTML, albeit non-standard. And that's the rub; the techniques the author demonstrates are browser-specific and won't work universally, not even today. Finally, the book seems disorganized, and it is difficult to find what few useful examples there are.

Don't Waste Your Money
What I got was frustration. As a web developer I bought this book hoping to learn new techniques. Although this book contains numerous coding examples (mainly for use with Internet Explorer), only about 5% of them work (with Internet Explorer). Don't waste your money.

This book stinks
I knew little about style sheets and my scripting skills were not too great; and this book basically assumes that you know it all. I got this book because I wanted a good introductory course to DHTML. It doesn't give any good examples and it's poorly laid out with useless sample code. This book should have been in color with a CD-ROM included, and it should have gone more into depth with style sheets and scripting. In a nutshell, don't buy this book. It stinks.