{"id":5,"date":"2005-02-13T22:10:52","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T03:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2017-02-23T10:02:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:02:37","slug":"dhtml-utopia-modern-web-design-using-javascript-dom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2005\/dhtml-utopia-modern-web-design-using-javascript-dom\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: DHTML Utopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DHTML Utopia Modern Web Design Using JavaScript &#038; DOM <\/p>\n<p>First thing I have to say is that I like their (I guess you can call it,) catch-phrase:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Create Killer Websites using the power of modern Javascript&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=wwwmontrealma-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0957921896&#038;fc1=000000&#038;=1&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=000000&#038;&#108;&#116;1=_blank&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=ffffff&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The pros:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the introduction, a section with the title: &#8216;Whither XHTML&#8217; &#8211; here we see Real-World thinking. Basically the author explains why using XHTML does not make sense now.<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 1 is a good overview of code (HTML, CSS) and how it should be applied in web design today.<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 2: A good intro the DOM &#8211; but it moves fast.<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 8: A cool section on XMLHTTP: XMLHTTP is a way to &#8216;talk&#8217; to the server via JavaScript, that makes for a Flash like exchange of data between a web page and server &#8211; that means no page refresh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The cons:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After chapter 2, I started to fall asleep &#8211; and I&#8217;m a big nerd!<\/li>\n<li>Not a knock on the book itself, but most of the stuff described in the book is not worth using (most of the time,) since about 10% of the people out there have JavaScript shut off. That means you can&#8217;t count on your JavaScript for anything &#8211; so all the JavaScript you use has to be non-essential.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conclusion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you know how to program, and you want to get into the cutting edge DOM scripting world, this is a reasonably good book.  <\/p>\n<p>You can read about more  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/bookReviews\/JavaScriptBooks.jsp\">JavaScript books here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CIAO,<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book review: A pretty good book if you&#039;re a JavaScript nerd &#8211; but not for people who have not programmed before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4729,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/4729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}