Writing Cross-Browser Dynamic HTML [With CDROM]

By Heather Williamson

This is the only book that we know of that focuses on the key question of how to write cross browser Dynamic HTML. Without this information, web developers find themselves torn between supporting separate sites for each browser, or compromising on the capabilities of their sites. This book thus not only offers important technical information, but also the likelihood of significant timesavings for busy Web developers who adopt its methodologies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1893115054
• ISBN13: 9781893115057
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 367 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A good book for Beginners and Novices

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. 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. 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.

Good, but not great.

This book is a good book. It contains all the necessary references you will need to do beginner to intermediate level DHTML development. However, it lacks anything beyond fairly superficial coverage. For the novice to intermediate developer, this book is probably for you. If you are an advanced developer you won't learn anything new (I was hoping for some nitty-gritty detailed stuff). I would have really liked to see a reference list that not only listed major version support/compatibility for DOM/CSS/JavaScript/Etc. but for all the minor version support. If I could pick 3.5 stars that's where this book would be. Finally, I have to point out that some of her example web pages don't even work in IE5.5...which really turned me off, big time.