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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.72
EAN: 9781861001566
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 1861001568
Label: Peer Information Inc.
Manufacturer: Peer Information Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 433
Publication Date: 1997-12
Publisher: Peer Information Inc.
Studio: Peer Information Inc.
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Amazon.com Review:
Even if you rely on online documentation for Web-page design, there's nothing like a handy, one-volume guide to the essentials of HTML and dynamic HTML (DHTML) standards. That's the idea behind Instant HTML, a much-needed reference that helps you get the most out of Web-page design and create cutting-edge cross-browser content.
Early chapters describe the basic terms and technologies, including HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, ECMAScript (a new, vender-neutral alternative), and DHTML. The authors then give a step-by-step tour of basic Web-page design, from the basic tags used in creating simple pages to style sheets, images, and links to other pages. Further chapters take on tables, frames, and forms and teach you how to use Java applets and ActiveX components within HTML. The authors show the differences between JavaScript and VBScript and, where appropriate, point out new features in emerging HTML 4 specifications. Each topic is illustrated with concise examples, and the authors note what does and doesn't work in Netscape Navigator 4 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.
The last part of the book will probably be useful to even the most seasoned HTML developer. Chapters explain how to design with DHTML in both Navigator 4 and Internet Explorer 4, displaying useful sample pages for each browser and offering tips on how to create cross-platform content for both browsers. Finally, since this is a reference book, valuable appendices are included for HTML tags, JavaScript and VBScript basics, and other information Internet developers will find useful.
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This is the second edition of the Wrox Press Instant HTML Programmer's Reference. We have taken the existing book, which covered all HTML and browser implementations up to and including HTML 3.2, and added coverage of IE4, Communicator 4 and HTML 4.0. It is a practical programming book, so we have concentrated on those features of HTML 4.0 which are currently supported by browsers. However, we do also touch on the features of HTML 4.0 which we believe will be supported by future browsers
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This could have been a much better book. It needed more examples (sample HTML code). It is also really out of date now, as you might suspect.
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This is not a thick book with everything you want or don't want of HTML. If you want to build or modify your personal web site, or working on a e-commerce site but need some quick reference, or refresh your memory, this is a very handy book to help you to get the things down easier than hold the thick one.
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Well, after buying the Instant Javascript book from Wrox, I was hoping to expect the same type of help from this book. And I do have to say I was a bit dissapointed by it. Apparently, they took too much time explaining and going into worthless subjects, instead of grinding the meat with real world examples, usefull tips and tricks, and hopefully some new light on HTML (something that most of the newer WYSIWYG editors don't already do). So, as I have shown, this is not a book you might want to buy for really advanced proyects, or higher learning. If you're a newbie looking to get an understanding at HTML, then this is a book for you.
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Of course, this is dated already, but if you are doing plain vanilla HTML, this is the most perfect HTML guide I've come across, and I have many. Even 3 years after it was published, when I need to look something up, this is the book that comes off the shelf first, and usually the only book that needs t come off the shelf. Which is amazing, considering how small the thing is, too.
It's not the meta-level description device that other HTML books are, so if you want more details on why things are the way they are, then you'll need another book. But if you get stuck and can't remember how to format colors in a table, you'll find it lickity-split in this book, with examples, and helpful clarifications.
If you do any HTML, put this book in your library.
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This book is very clear and concise. Not only is it an awesome reference, but it's simple enough, that a newbie can learn from it. Everything important is bold, in bigger fonts, bulleted etc... very clear, and easy to see when you are looking for something. One of the most useful things about it, is that it shows how something is applied, by giving you examples of code, rather than giving you dry verbiage. If you're a web developer, this book is a must!
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