DHTML & JavaScript offers plenty of instruction on using DHTML features as implemented in Netscape's Navigator 4+ browsers. This book contains a wealth of information about style sheets and other elements of Dynamic HTML; however, readers should be forewarned that there is no mention of Microsoft Internet Explorer compatibility whatsoever.

The title features dual coverage of the cascading style sheets syntax and JavaScript syntax implementations of DHTML. It delves deeply into the added features of JavaScript 1.2 and covers the changes presented with JavaScript 1.3. The first part of the book focuses on style and layer implementation, while the subsequent parts go into the aforementioned JavaScript dialects. The material is presented with text that's easy to understand; however, the book's formatting is a bit distracting. The author uses unusually prominent headings and excessively underlines text.

Loads of code samples illustrate all of the concepts, and charts summarize the language syntax, properties, and events. The accompanying CD-ROM provides the book's content in HTML and Adobe Acrobat formats as well as supplemental documents such as Netscape guides. Although this book's presentation is rather unconventional, its excellent code examples and detailed index make it great as an everyday how-to reference. --Stephen W. Plain

From Library Journal

Gilorien is a digital artist so this is not your normal computer manual. While the tech stuff is all correct, the book's perspective is definitely "artistic," meaning cool comes before usability and often readability. This is not a book for novices; readers should have already mastered cascading style. A must for patrons interested in creating very strange, dynamic, animated images that download quckly without plugs-in. For larger collections.

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