DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM
Learn to harness the power of JavaScript and web standards to create usable, slick, and interactive Websites
About the course
What do Flickr, Google Suggest, Google Maps, and GMail have in common? They all take great advantage of some of the latest modern, unobtrusive DHTML techniques. As users become more familiar with the Web, they demand more: more information, better usability, greater functionality and improved interactivity. If they don’t get it, they move on.
Client-side interactivity is the key to improving the user experience. DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM will teach you to create slick, interactive and usable Websites that work across all browsers and platforms.
DHTML, the marriage of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and the Document Object Model (DOM), can provide an amazing level of client-side interactivity, as many of today’s leading Websites have discovered. Amazon’s cool, new “Search Inside This Book” feature, Flickr, Google Suggest, Google Maps, and GMail are all examples of the modern, 'unobtrusive' DHTML techniques that are demonstrated and explained in this book – the first on the market to cover this technology.
This book really teaches you how to apply modern JavaScript and DOM, taking you by the hand and guiding you through the current Web Standards forest, explaining choices, showing current best practice solutions and leading you through the minefield of browser support inconsistencies.
Author
Stuart Langridge
Stuart is a consultant CTO, software architect, and developer to startups and small firms on strategy, custom development, and how to best work with the dev team. Code and writings are to be found at kryogenix.org and social networks; Stuart himself is mostly to be found playing D&D or looking for the best vodka Collins in town.