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Joe

I much appreciate your  continued help.

I went out and bought the book Saturday morning. I didn't realise until I got back that I already had a Javascript book by Danny Goodman published by Hungry Minds Inc.

However my new one that you have recommend is the first on DHTML. The problem with all these books is that there just so much to read (1401 pages including index in this case), and pressures of work mean that I cannot afford to spend the time to read them properly. Whilst I understand HTML well enough, I do not understand some of the basics pf the syntax of DHTML and I haven't yet found a simple explanation that I can learn from a few pages. Once I have, my new book will be a real asset, but in the meantime, all I can hope to do is to find a working example that I can copy and modify to meet my needs, and ask the occasional question here when I am stuck on something that is important for my users.

I still have a few problems, but Walden's post has solved one of them. I will post the others in a response to Walden.

Many thanks for your help


Rob Dixon Joe Lee wrote:

This book isn't a guide book, while there is a small section at the
beginning of the book dealing with some of the basics of dynamic HTML,
Javascript, etc. That section is less than 200 pages out of almost 1400.
The author assumes that you have at least some knowledge of the basics.
What this book is good for, is when you want to know what attributes,
methods, events, etc are available for a given HTML element, and what
the effects of the various values for those attributes.


So for example, in your case, I can look at the createPopup() method of
the window object and see that it is not available in any version of
netscape, it is not available in any version of DOM, and it is only
available in IE, but only for version 5.5 and greater and only in
windows. So if you are trying to provide support for multiple browsers,
the createPopup() method is probably not a good choice.

btw, I am in no way associated with the author or publisher. I just
find the book incredibly useful. When I am working on a web project I
refer to it constantly. In fact while I have other books available, this
is the only one I actually use.

Joe Lee



rob.dixon@xxxxxxxxxxx 11/04/2004 15:47:28 >>>


Joe

Many thanks for your response.

I have four books on JS that tell you how things work under different browsers although I do not have that particular one.

What my books do not do is tell you what to use when the method you
have been using only works under one browser - does the one you suugest do that? i.e they do not say when supporting Netscape use
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx instead of createPopup. I will certainly see if I can find a copy
here in the UK to have a look at but I fear that it may not solve my
problem


Many thanks

Rob Dixon

Joe Lee wrote:



I highly recommend that anyone doing anything with dynamic html get a
copy of "Dynamic HTML The Definitive Reference, 2nd Edition" by Danny
Goodman. It is published by O'Reilly, and more information about it


can


be found here http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dhtmlref2/. This is an
incredible reference book. It tells you almost everything there is to
know about HTML, CSS2, DOM 2, and JavaScript 1.5. Including how each
item works in IE through version 6 in both Windows and Mac, Netscape,
and Mozilla.


Joe Lee





rob.dixon@xxxxxxxxxxx 11/04/2004 09:04:02 >>>




Thanks to the help of kind people on this list, I was able to get an onMouseOver and an onClick to trigger a createPopup, and this works
well in IE. I would like to get a similiar function to work in Netscape


and


Firefox (ideally to create code that works for all browsers!)

Can anyone please point me in the right direction?

Many thanks

Rob Dixon




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