Professional IE4 Programming [Paperback]

With the release of version 4, Internet Explorer has developed from being a browser to being a complete web application development platform. This work sets out to cover all the major areas of programmability. It starts with 5 chapters on Dynamic HTML, including coverage of Cascading Style Sheets, the Browser Object Model and Scripting. It then moves on to devote 4 chapters to Data Binding, giving examples using ADC and RDS. The next section covers a mixture of advanced programming techniques - the new multimedia effects that one can achieve, the new components that can be downloaded and used - NetShow, Chat and Agent. It also includes a chapter on Scriptlets, the newest of IE4s technologies, which enables web developers to reuse their code. The final section of the book deals with Channels, Webcasting and the Active Desktop, and leads into a comprehensive reference section.

Advanced IE4 Programming book? Look no further.
You're a web developer, you know Javascript or Vbscript, you know HTML and you've just spent the last hour searching through IE4 books, yet everyone is just a point and click guide on how to use Outlook Express. You're frustrated, you know how to use a browser, any idiot can do that, what you'd really like to know to is how to get those multimedia controls that come free with IE4 into your web pages, how to connect your web pages to your own database, how to create your own channel files in CDF, and what is all the fuss about scriptlets? This is the only book currently available that will tell you how to do that.

We assume you know the basics. We'll get you programming IE4 in Dynamic HTML, in ASP, in JavaScript. This is an advanced book for web developers but it packs a lot of information in its 800 pages. Information on scriptlets, multimedia controls, data binding, channels and dynamic html written by experienced programmers that you won't find anywhere else yet.

Mike Barta
Subject file for Mike Barta While the full details are somewhat obscured, some pertinent facts have emerged during our investigation. The subject is in his twenties. He has been seen lurking in the Redmond, WA area for several years now, and it is said he is in program management. Prior to this he has spent time as a mismanager, an itinerant student of Slavic languages, a 'media professional' and a professional eavesdropper in military employ. His strange appreciation for rainy days might be attributable to Seattle childhood. These observations are based partially on hearsay, veracity is suspected thereby. This is an unsecured line.

Jon Bonnell
Jon Bonnell is a full time programmer and program manager and has been for seven years. Before that it was formal education and high school, but there has always been a computer influencing his life. Jon spends his free time doing this: writing books, articles, etc. When his wife lets him and he can wrestle the computer away from his three year old son, he logs onto the Internet and tries to keep up with the myriad of changes that occur there, every day. Since that's almost impossible, he gets discouraged and plays a quick game of Quake or works on one of the many programming projects he has cluttering up his hard drive that he never finds time to complete.

Andrew Enfield
Andrew Enfield is currently finishing an undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Washington. He has co-authored three books with Wrox Press and very much enjoys the writing and school lifestyle. When he's not writing, coding, studying, or living in labs on campus he likes to travel, read, watch baseball, and take long walks in beautiful, green and wet Seattle. In the last year he's camped in New Mexico and Arizona, visited Boston and California, and ventured out on a 3 month jaunt to Europe and the Middle East - that makes it four down, with three continents to go!

Dino Esposito
Dino Esposito is a trainer and a consultant who specializes in Windows and COM programming. He works for Infomedia Communications, writing and teaching seminars on Win32 programming, VB, and HTML. Has an extensive experience developing commercial Windows-based software, especially for the photography world. He's a regular contributor to Microsoft Interactive Developer and Windows Developer's Journal and writes occasionally also for Windows Tech Journal.

Brian Francis
Brian is a Senior Developer with NCR's Human Interface Technology Center in Atlanta, Georgia. At the HITC, Brian is responsible for prototyping and developing advanced applications that apply superior human interfaces as developed at the Center. His tools of choice include Visual Basic, Visual C++, Java, and all of the Microsoft Internet products. Brian has developed and deployed Multimedia Kiosk applications, Computer-based Training applications, and other advanced user interface prototypes for the past three years.

Richard Harrison
Richard is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and a senior consultant for a major global IT services company. He has recently been specialising in Microsoft Internet architectures and helping organisations to use these technologies to build mission critical Web solutions.

Alex Homer
Alex Homer lives and works in the idyllic rural surroundings of Derbyshire, UK. His software company, specializes in office integration and Internet-related development, and produces a range of vertical application software. He has worked with Wrox Press on several projects.

Stephen Jakab
Stephen Jakab has experience in writing custom solutions for corporate companies. He worked on the Consort II car fleet management system written in CA Clipper and as a Microsoft Certified Professional, he now concentrates on VB and ASP Internet/Intranet Web projects with the SQL Server backend. While he's not working, he enjoys many sports, reading anf travelling. This year he's been to the US, Canada and has recently returned from Hungary.

Sing Li
Bitten by the microcomputer bug since 1978, Sing has grown up with the microprocessor age. His first personal computer was a $99 do-it-yourself Netronics COSMIC ELF computer with 256 bytes of memory, mail ordered from the back pages of Popular Electronics magazine. Currently, Sing is an active author, consultant, and entrepreneur. He has written for popular technical journals and is the creator of the "Internet Global Phone", one of the very first Internet phones available. His wide-ranging consulting expertise spans Internet and Intranet systems design, distributed architectures, digital convergence, embedded systems, real-time technologies, and cross platform software design. Recently, he has completed an assignment with Nortel Multimedia Labs working in Computer Telephony Integration, and Advanced Callcenter Management products. Sing is a founder of microWonders, an emerging company specializing in products to fulfill the ubiquitous "computing anywhere" vision.

Shawn Murphy
Shawn is currently an independent Internet developer and consultant working in the Los Angeles area where he is also studying architecture at the University of Southern California. He writes articles for IEWorld an on-line journal that is dedicated to the latest in Internet Development and Microsoft technologies. His experience in web technologies ranges from HTML to client and server-side code and web application development. He has also worked as a contractor for companies ranging from nursing homes to Microsoft's Internet Gaming Zone.

Chris Ullman
Chris Ullman is a computer science graduate who has not let this handicap prevent him becoming a programmer fluent in Visual Basic, Java, SQL and Dynamic HTML. When not cutting up pictures by old masters to re-assemble them as dynamic jigsaws on his preferred browser, he's either found down his local soccer ground urging on his favorite team, Birmingham City, or at home trying to prevent his two new kittens from tearing up the house, or each other. All my love to Kate, who's always there to give me support and a home and usually tries to look interested when I explain the latest Internet based technology.