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1. Dynamic Html : The Html Developer's Guide |
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Paperback - 288 pages (November 1998) |
This is a wonderful book. It is written by the web master who maintains Discovery.com, the Discovery Channel's website. Rather than present thousands of listings for tags and elements, the author steps the reader through a series of exercises which employ real-world examples of handy techniques. These include useful mouse response issues, pop-up/pull-down menus, time sequencing (invoking events at determined intervals), animation, and ActiveX/Java objects usage. These techniques are designed with real-time consideration in mind, and are neither CPU nor bandwidth intensive. By the time you've read this book, you have a nice set of tools which can be combined to enhance your web site while keeping response/load time at a reasonable levels. The author also deals effectively with cross browser considerations. I highly recommend this book as an intro to DHTML. | List Price: Our Price: 31.96$ You Save: 7.9933 33 100620%) |
2. Dynamic Html in Action |
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Paperback - 497 pages 2nd Bk&Dk edition (March 1999) |
This edition provides way better coverage of working cross-browser. It looks like the authors put a lot of thought into creating samples that worked in both browsers wherever possible, and told us why when a sample didn't. I thought that the writing was excellent and very accessible, both to novices and more advanced programmers. It includes lots of sample code (on the cd along with some tools and extensive references). This book has a lot more information than the first edition. It also includes a bunch of new IE5-specific stuff, like behaviors. All in all, a great book to learn DHTML. | List Price: Our Price: 31.99$ You Save: 8.0033 33 100620%) |
3. Dynamic Html : The Definitive Reference |
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Paperback - 1073 pages 1 Ed edition (August 1998) |
No other work has so comprehensively and thoroughly documented "cross-browser" Javascript, DOM, HTML, and CSS in one place. It very clearly tells you what is available and what will and will not work on various browsers and versions -- something that is otherwise extremely difficult to cull from widespread sources. This book is the one book an experienced web developer needs to have. When you reach the point where you don't need to know how to write the code but rather what code to write, this book will save you many hours. | List Price: Our Price: 31.96$ You Save: 7.9933 33 100620%) |
4. The Dhtml Companion |
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Paperback - 400 pages (January 1998) |
This book opens up a new world in web develpment. I have read it and my pages HAVE COME ALIVE, literaly. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn DHTML or JavaScript on a lower level. It is excellent! | List Price: Our Price: 27.96$ You Save: 6.9933 33 100620%) |
5. Professional IE4 Programming |
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Paperback - 850 pages (November 1997) |
It tells you the basics of everything that you can do with ie4. It tells you how to create your own chat rooms and how to create things that will interact with your visitors like Microsoft Agent. This book also has a reference of visual basic so if you do not know anything about visual basic then you can learn from this book or even learn some basics of javascript. | List Price: Our Price: 39.96$ You Save: 9.9933 33 100620%) |
6. Building Dynamic HTML GUIs |
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Paperback - 600 pages (May 1999) |
All I can say is that this book is a breath of fresh air to professionals who are tired of the remedial skill-review, 'for dummies' approach to Internet books. We finally have a DHTML book written by programmers for programmers! | List Price: Our Price: 31.99$ You Save: 8.0033 33 100620%) |
7. Dhtml: For the World Wide Web (Visual Quickstart Guide) |
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Paperback (October 1998) |
This is a great book for developers who want to get right into DHTML. Begins with a very in-depth study of CSS, an essential component of legitimate DHTML applications. Then it gets right into the nitty gritty with examples and thorough explanations. I highly recommend this book. It's perfect for beginners, and would make a great reference for experts. | List Price: Our Price: 14.36$ You Save: 3.5933 33 100620%) |
8. Dynamic Html : Master All the Essentials |
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Paperback - 560 pages (February 1998) |
I bought this book and typed in every html file. I think this book is worth its name. It does teach you the essentials. Unlike many other books on the same topic, it explains the new techniques through examples. I really like this book's way of introducing a new topic. This way you can feel how it works before you know why it works. | List Price: Our Price: 23.99$ You Save: 6.0033 33 100620%) |
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Our favorite books on JavaScript |
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1. Javascript: The Definitive Guide |
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Paperback - 776 pages 3rd edition (June 1998) |
Forget the Rhinoceros on the front, what counts is what's inside. This book is the place to start if you want to learn Javascript and you've done some programing before. It's clearly written, and a very good tutorial and excellent reference. It hasn't left my desk and will definitely not end up on the shelf any soon. I know the simple HTML language and learning javascript from this book has brought life to my personal web page. Get this book, it's all you'll need! | List Price: Our Price: 23.97$ You Save: 15.9833 33 100640%) |
2. Javascript Bible, 3rd Edition |
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Paperback - 1015 pages 3rd Bk&cdr edition (March 1998) |
This book is one of the best reference tools I've ever used. Not only does it completely describe every difference between IE and NetScape, it goes a step further by providing work arounds that have been tested for years and are certain to work. The code examples contained on the cd that comes with the book are worth the purchase price alone and Danny Goodman is constantly providing updates to those examples at his website www.dannyg.com. With Danny Goodman, you're not just buying a book, you're buying into a world of information. | List Price: Our Price: 29.99$ You Save: 20.0033 33 100640%) |
3. Designing With JavaScript: Creating Dynamic Web Pages (Web Review Studio Series) |
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Paperback - 256 pages Bk&Cd Rom edition (September 1997) |
If you've been writing HTML for a while and want to get into javascripting this is a good start. You don't have to learn the language of javascript, but instead learn by doing some projects. The projects are really what most people want javscript for anyway: using forms, frames, cookies, and image rollovers. It helps to have a little programming background already. The fact that the book is a little out of date actually helps because everything covered has already been implemented in both browsers by now. | List Price: Our Price: 23.96$ You Save: 5.9933 33 100620%) |
4. HTML 4.0 CD w/Javascript |
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Paperback - 450 pages Book & Cd edition (January 1999) |
The book is a good solid reference to HTML 4.0, and includes some software on an associated CD. On my version of the CD one of the packages was corrupted, but I suspect that will have been fixed by now. The CD contains sample shareware programs and examples from the books. In common with many book/CD combinations only one or two of the shareware programs may be of use to a particular person, but having the book's examples on the CD is always useful. The book itself contains one or two errors that I found, but these minor flaws are outweighed by the immense amount of information in it. I'd recommend it to anyone with a little knowledge of HTML as a reference. | List Price: Our Price: 39.99$ You Save: 10.0033 33 100620%) |
5. Javascript Cookbook |
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Paperback - 608 pages Bk&Cd-Rom edition (April 1997) |
The book is for technical html designers who wish to learn JavaScript principles and specifics. The goal is to provide for client interactions, and to add useful features not possible with html. Despite the title, this is no simple Cookbook - it is for those who want to learn to cook well. | List Price: Our Price: 39.99$ You Save: 10.0033 33 100620%) |
6. Javascript Essentials |
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Paperback - 541 pages Bk&Disk edition (October 1996) |
JavaScript made easy. Developing interactive HTML application using JavaScript is a breeze when you have Jason Manger's JavaScript Essentials next to your keyboard. The bundled CD-ROM puts ready-to-run applets and source code segments at your fingertips-so you can create and manipulate JavaScript objects and integrate them into your Web sites quickly and easily. You also get clear, step-by-step guidelines for using JavaScript statements, hyperlinks and built-in objects... creating dynamic documents... interfacing Java with JavaScript... building HTML frames... and much more. | List Price: Our Price: 26.36$ You Save: 6.5933 33 100620%) |
7. Javascript Pocket Reference |
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Paperback - 89 pages (October 1998) |
A very rare O'Reilly book that isn't well written (that's because there is no writing!) An utterly consise book with nothing other than the syntax and VERY brief descriptions programmers will understand immediately. Get it if you need to have that site up and running today. | List Price: Our Price: 6.36$ You Save: 1.5933 33 100620%) |
8. Javascript Sourcebook : Creative Interactive Javascript Programs for the World Wide Web |
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Paperback - 752 pages Bk&Cd-Rom edition (July 1996) |
The author has done a good book for beginners. If you are confused reading the first chapters, try reading from the middle of the book first! Then you will understand expressions, variables, and more programming basics. | List Price: Our Price: 35.96$ You Save: 8.9933 33 100620%) |