Html Dynamic

New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages with HTML and Dynamic HTML, 2nd Edition

Format: Paperback
Author: Patrick Carey
ReleaseDate: 21 April, 2003
Publisher: Course Technology
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Should you buy this book?
We have found errors in the book. I am a college student taking a class using this book to help in creating web pages. In some of the review work and case probems it tells you do certain thing that the book never told you how to do it. I would do more research before I bought this book.

Not technically accurate
VERY misleading. The "Includes XHTL coverage throughout" claim on the front cover and the publisher's review is misleading. While the coverage of the book is well thought out and implemented, the author does NOT use xhtml throughout, proper coverage of xhtml is relegated to a single appendix. The xhtml is what I would call "pseudo-covered" in the rest of the book. For example, proper xhtml requires the use of an xml declarative statement and a DOCTYPE, among other things. The author leaves these out in almost every example. He gets some stuff right like the br / for an xhtml break tag and then totally blows the rest. As an example onMouseOver as an event handler will NOT validate as proper xhtml 1. 0 Strict or xhtml 1. 1 because xhtml requires all tags and attributes to be totally lowercase and yet the author uses it (among numerous other errors. ) If you're going to claim something as teaching xhtml, then you should get it right. If you are learning from this book - great. You'll get a very good foundation. But be aware that Mr. Carey is also teaching you some things that are incorrect. Make sure you validate the scripts at the w3c validator as xhtml 1. 1 or xhtml 1. 0 strict and you'll see what I mean.

Not the best HTML book, but definitely a good one.
I've used this book as a reference when customizing public layouts for my own use. Like other reviewers, I've used this book in a community college class, and, like the others, find the book does a good job by itself! The example tutorials are easy to follow (although the examples are kind of drab!), additional reference information is included, and being in color definitely helps. I would say the book is more of a "valiant attempt" at Javascript, which would require a book in itself. Likewise, I was surprised at how often the CSS section didn't help me with some CSS code I was modifying. And I'll add that, of the web technologies out there, you're better off learning Javascript and PHP than DHTML. Not the best HTML book, but definitely a good one.