Html Dynamic

Writing Cross-Browser Dynamic HTML

Format: Paperback
Author: Heather Williamson
ReleaseDate: 01 January, 2000
Publisher: Apress
Rating:

A good book for Beginners and Novices
Ms Williamson has layed out the basic principals that are being used today and lays the foundation that can be built upon by Developers and Designers in the future. I have used this book as a learning tool in training classes and have found it gives a sound foundation on DHTML and how it is implemented in Netscape and IE's current supported versions. Although some of the examples did not work as they were intended we were able to make sense of what the intention was and see how the usage would enable us to provide pages for clients that could be impactive and easily viewed.

Ouch!
But I have to add that I've never seen a book as poorly edited as this one. The reviews below are entirely accurate about the (lack of useful) content in this book. (There are a lot of poorly edited books out there, too. ) Variables change their name from one line of code to the next; typos abound; and on p. 184 a query by the editor to the author has been duly set into the code! So the code is unreadable, and even after you correct for the typos and errors and omissions it still doesn't work, and even if it did work it would be lame.

I paid . . . for this, too.

Nothing New, Nothing In Depth, Nothing Worthwhile
IT'S NOT. I thought this was going to be a good book for creating business class Cross-Browser DHTML Web Applications.

Apparently, the target audience for this book was the weekend web-hobbiests who want cute interactive graphics for thier homepages.

This book is not worth the paper it is written on.