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Title: Building Dynamic HTML GUIs by Steven Champeon, David S. Fox ISBN: 0-7645-3267-7 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.64 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Very handy
Comment: This book covers a lot of nice material. I find myself referencing it all the time. Just about anything you'd want to do with javascript / HTML is here.
However, this book is not for the javascript novice. It also, is NOT a javascript tutorial by any means. In addition, a complaint I had is that the code isn't on a Cd, you have to download it from their site. Also, the routines they use to manipulate objects are wrapped in their javascript code and it appears what they are calling, is native javascript code. This was unnverving until I figured out you had to include a 30K include file. I also found some of the examples didn't run nicely on all browsers (not surprising with DHTML).
However, this book does cover a lot of ground and prepares the developer for the arduous task of creating DHTML pages. They do some very cool things with it and it is worth checking out.
Rating: 4
Summary: Theory, fundamentals AND working code.
Comment: I seldom read "doorstop" techology books -- you know, the 600-1000 page works focused on exhaustive reference and tutorials into some technology. The good ones sit on my desk like a dictionary, waiting for me to look up a particular syntax for something. The bad ones prop up my monitor.
This book, however, does neither. Champeon does great job doing what it's advertised as doing: You can use his work to step you through the daunting task of building interfaces to Web applications that work in both browsers. With a supporting Web site for downloading the code he refers to in the book, you'll have a complete package for taking the next step in dynamic development for the Web.
But he doesn't stop there. While so many technical books give you the nuts and bolts to build your projects, so few give you anything else. Champeon realizes that this is only the end of a long process of understanding the reasons WHY you should build sites the way he suggests. To drive home his point, he digs into the history of interface theory: from the early command-line interfaces, to modern GUIs, and now the advent of powerful tools displayed through hypertext interfaces.
Without this understanding of the fundamentals of good, user-centered design, any interface you build will fail. This book will give you that understanding, plus to tools to put that knowledge into practice.
If only all technical authors understood this...
Rating: 4
Summary: Great to learn how it evolves
Comment: The best thing about this book is it says a liitle about NS, and then a little about IE, and the NS,IE,NS,IE on and on so you get a feel of who started what first and feel somewhat in the middle of the Netscape-Microsoft rivalry. The down side is that it talks a lot and maybe could fit more in if it didn't, but there are different reasons to buy different books.
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Title: Inside Dynamic Html (Microsoft Programming Series) by Scott Isaacs ISBN: 1572316861 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition) by Jason Cranford Teague ISBN: 0201730847 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 24 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference (2nd Edition) by Danny Goodman ISBN: 0596003161 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook by Danny Goodman ISBN: 0596004672 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Dhtml: Learning by Example by Robert B. Mellor ISBN: 188790283X Publisher: Franklin Beedle & Assoc Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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