Writing Cross-Browser Dynamic HTML [With CDROM]

This book is divided into three sections. The first is a detailed treatment of the technologies, concepts, and standards needed to use Dynamic HTML for users running all the popular late model browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 4/5 and Netscape Navigator 4.0/4.5/5. This section also discusses the implementation and development of HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, competeing models of the DOM (document object model), and the JavaScript/JScript/ECMAScript techniques needed to control the DOM. The second section shows web designers the development cycle for a dynamic site, staying focused on implementation issues relating to maintaining cross platform compatibility. The final part of this section deals with the interactive coding of Dynamic HTML pages. This tutorial creates a complete interactive web site, with each new lesson building on the previous examples. By the end, the reader wil have completed a complete site, ready to post on the Internet. It includes a large number of graphical schemes that can serve as both examples in the tutorials and as fuel for the reader's imagination. The third section is devoted to a second example script, with comments throughout. This script uses a different layout from the one in the earlier tutorial, demonstrating to the reader alternate methods for implementing similar functions and features. In this way the reader will see at least two methods for implementing most of the features used in dynamic sites and shown in this book.