[CLUG] DHTML

[Peter Flynn]

At Wednesday, 31 October 2001, Peter Aherne wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Yet again not a very Linux related question but would anyone in 
the area 
>have a good book on DHTML especially one concentrating on cross-
browser 
>compatability. Or else anybody with alot of knowledge of this and does 
>not mind a few extra e-mails to plough through :-).

I have a copy of Simon St Laurent's "Dynamic HTML - A Primer" 
which you're welcome to borrow.

But DHTML is pretty much dead these days, having been passed by
by a combination of XML, XSL, PHP, JSP and a few other technologies.
It was (as you imply) horribly browser-dependent, which makes it
pretty pointless for transparent Web site development.

A good book is also "Writing Cross-Browser Dynamic HTML" by
Heather Williamson, but the fact that someone had to write a 
book to explain the platform incompatibilities indicates to me
that this is a dodo.
 
What is it you have to do with DHTML?

///Peter