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DHTML Utopia:
Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM

Author: Stuart Langridge
Technical editor: Simon Willison

“ Learn to harness the power of JavaScript and web standards to create usable, slick, and interactive Websites ”

• Build fancy DHTML effects that can be instantly reused in any project.
• Learn to code accessible JavaScript that won't trouble older browsers.
• Make search engine friendly, multi-level, drop-down navigation menus.
• Build dynamic Web applications using remote scripting techniques/AJAX.

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Overview

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.

DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM doesn’t cover old-style, browser-specific DHTML. Modern DHTML, as presented in this book, utilizes Web standards, separates the code from the markup, and degrades gracefully.

So your code will enhance sites’ interactivity and usability in browsers that can handle it, but won’t break the functionality on those that can’t. You can use DHTML on any Website, without having to worry about causing problems for even a small percent of your visitors.

‘DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM’ shows you how to apply this valuable technology to benefit your sites now—and in the future.

What Will You Learn?

This book will show you how to:

• Gain an in-depth knowledge of the Document Object Model (DOM)
• Make reusable modular image rollovers that keep your code separate from the content of the page
• Discover how to use DOM Events to make your code respond to input from the user
• Make tables more readable with dynamic highlighting
• Learn how to use feature sniffing to determine the browser’s capabilities so that your scripts won’t trouble browsers that are incapable of handling them
• Discover how animation can be used to improve usability
• Create animated tooltips to guide visitors through your site
• Discover how to validate form data using regular expressions, and give dynamic feedback to your users
• Build self-suggesting dropdown lists that improve the usability of dropdown menus, just like Google Suggest
• Discover the benefits of object-based programming
• Develop a fully standards-compliant, cross-browser, customizable navigation menu
• Get the lowdown on Remote Scripting techniques and AJAX
• Create form fields with name resolution that will automatically resolve an email address from a nickname
• Construct an AJAX signup form that can automatically let a user know that a username is taken without having to submit the whole form
• Learn how to make your JavaScript communicate with the server
• Develop a drag and drop file manager application (link to online version)
• Use XML-RPC and the Blogger API to make a weblog post editor
• Use XPath and JavaScript to parse RSS feeds
• And a whole lot more..

All the DHTML presented in this book will make your code cleaner, the user experience on your Website better, and best of all, it won’t negatively impact older browsers.

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Who Should Read This Book?

‘DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM’ is ideal for all Web developers who want to get to grips with the DOM, whether you are experienced with JavaScript or are a relative newcomer. All you need to get started is a solid understanding of HTML and Cascading Style Sheets.

The book is written in the usual SitePoint style: clear, fun to read, and with plenty of practical examples that you can apply immediately to your own Websites.

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Of course we’re so confident that you’ll treasure this book for years to come that we’re happy, as always, for you to try it risk-free for 30 days. If you purchase a copy of DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM and you don’t think it’s everything you wanted, we would like you to have your money back.

Simply contact us and we will see to it that you get a prompt and courteous refund of the full purchase price.

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How To Order This Book

‘DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM’ is provided as a downloadable Adobe PDF, so you can begin reading it within minutes of making your purchase.

And of course, it's so easy to carry a whole library of PDFs with you (on a laptop or pen drive) that you'll never need to be caught without a solution to a problem again.

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