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by Bryan Pfaffenberger (Author), Bill Karow (Author) "When you learn a language, you need to learn rules, called syntax ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 743 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 2nd Edition edition (20 Jul 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0764534734
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764534737
  • Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 18.8 x 4.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,190,599 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In HTML 4 Bible, you will find a comprehensive definition of what is considered state of the art in Web-publishing languages. The book explains HTML tags and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) thoroughly, and it gives some attention to JavaScript as well.

Authors Pfaffenberger and Gutzman use a helpful problem-and-solution format that provides straightforward answers to common problems--they show you how to build image maps and create attractive forms, to cite two examples.

What's special about the book's approach is that it doesn't get side-tracked by the universe of detail that HTML 4 presents. Rather than choosing to ploddingly document the characteristics of one tag after another, Pfaffenberger and Gutzman explain their subject by describing how it is applied in practice. They explain, for example, how to arrange textual data so that people are more likely to read it.

The downside to this holistic approach is that HTML 4 Bible isn't the absolutely comprehensive HTML reference many readers will expect it to be. Books like that exist, and you may want to supplement HTML 4 Bible with one of them. But if you want a text that provides informed explanations of how to get the results you want with HTML, this book is for you. --David Wall (This text refers to the Paperback edition.)



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HTML 4 Bible, 2nd Edition is your comprehensive reference to the latest standard for Web page construction. Build internet and intranet documents that are fully compliant with the rules of HTML 4.01, making them suitable for inclusion in xHTML applications. Once they′re in xHTML, they can be integrated with SMIL, MathML, and SVG technologies to create full–featured Web applications.

The book′s CD–ROM holds the Amaya, Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator and Opera web browsers, allowing you to readily test your pages for cross–browser compliance. Also on the CD–ROM is TidyHTML, the best tool for validating your 4.01 source code.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Okay reference. Waaaay too many mistakes., 27 Jul 1999
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While this book helped me through the basics, it did so in a confusing and round-about fashion. All too often subjects were brought up, only to be glossed over and referenced to a chapter further along in the book. That jumping around made for very confusing reading. It was also dissapointing to see so many chapters written about such off-topic subjects such as verb usage and finding a topic for a web page. This book could have, and should have, been much smaller (read cheaper) for the actual HTML 4 information it contains.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive and Accurate, 4 Nov 1998
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This is a great book for an experienced Web developer. The authors take special pains to draw attention to what's new in HTML 4 and to indicate what works in each browser (and browser version). This book is always within reach of my computer. The index is excellent and the explanations and examples are clear and relevant. The appendices are also very helpful in showing what works in which browser.

I've seen many HTML books and this is the best one out there. So many of the books that are sold as HTML 4 books are really just re-packaged HTML 3.2 books. This one was written for HTML 4, which is really a different animal than HTML 3.2 It includes a comprehensive section on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the Document Object Model (DOM), and Javascript, and how the three work together to make Dynamic HTML.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Flawed, but still very useful, 28 Sep 1999
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I have given this book quite a high rating simply because although it is very flawed in many ways, it is still better than many other HTML books out there. My first criticism of it is its length and price. I have read the entire book and managed to condense everything of any importance into two small notebooks - the book could easily have been a good, cheap pocketbook instead of the lumbering tome that it is ... the author says nothing of any practical use for the first 60-odd pages. On page 61, chapter 4, he finally starts teaching you HTML from scratch, which is great. He covers the terminology, tags, entities, comments, document type declaration, meta tags, style sheets and cascading style sheets (though his definitions of these are inconsistent), lists, anchor tags, web site publishing (very unclearly), getting an ISP, connecting to a server (again, very unclearly), testing your site, stats software, spam, internet connexions, aliasing vs anti-aliasing, splash screens/entry tunnels, colours, linking to non-web data, images, multimedia, alt tags, tables and much more. There are typos and, worse, syntax errors but it is possible to get nearly all the information one needs anyway. Like I said, it could have been done much better, but it's still a decent enough book.

One thing that is irritating is that he does not seem to know what dynamic HTML is. First he says it is the same thing as HTML 4.0, then he says it is something else, then he says it is JavaScript and HTML 4.0, etc. He is inconsistent and also teaches things but then, 200 pages later says that these things are not actually supported yet - which is not very convenient.

Still, this book *has* helped me, and for that I'm grateful.

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