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JavaScript is a powerful, object-based scripting language; JavaScript programs can be embedded directly into HTML web pages. When combined with the Document Object Model (DOM) defined by a web browser, JavaScript allows you to create Dynamic HTML (DHTML) content and interactive client-side web applications. JavaScript syntax is based on the popular programming languages C, C++, and Java, which makes it familiar and easy to learn for experienced programmers. At the same time, JavaScript is an interpreted scripting language, providing a flexible, forgiving environment in which new programmers can learn. * The Definitive Guide* provides a thorough description of the core JavaScript language and both the legacy and standard DOMs implemented in web browsers. The book includes sophisticated examples that show you how to handle common tasks such as validating form data, working with cookies, and creating portable DHTML animations. The book also contains detailed reference sections that cover the core JavaScript API, the legacy client-side API, and the W3C standard DOM API, documenting every JavaScript object, method, property, constructor, constant, function, and event handler in those APIs. This fourth edition of the bestselling JavaScript book has been carefully updated to cover JavaScript 1.5 (ECMAScript Version 3). The book also provides complete coverage of the W3C DOM standard (Level 1 and Level 2), while retaining material on the legacy Level 0 DOM for backward compatibility. * The Definitive Guide* is a complete programmer's guide and reference manual for JavaScript. It is particularly useful for developers working with the latest standards-compliant web browsers, such as Internet Explorer 6, Netscape 6, and Mozilla. HTML authors can learn how to use JavaScript to build dynamic web pages. Experienced programmers can quickly find the information they need to start writing sophisticated JavaScript programs. This book is an indispensable reference for all JavaScript programmers, regardless of experience level. ---------- *Description from the Fourth Edition (2007, O'Reilly Media)* Printing History August 1996 Beta Edition. January 1997 Second Edition. June 1998 Third Edition. January 2002 Fourth Edition.

Netscape Navigator 4.0! Internet Explorer 4.0! HTML 3.2! JavaScript! Style sheets! Layers! HTML is changing so fast it's almost impossible to keep up with developments. How do you know what's real, and how do you use it? This book brings it all together for you. HTML: The Definitive Guide is the most comprehensive book available on HTML today. It covers the latest standard, HTML 3.2, and all of the features supported by every popular Web browser, including the latest editions of Netscape and Internet Explorer.

Learning HTML is like learning any new language, computer or human. Most students first immerse themselves in examples. Studying others is a natural way to learn, making learning easy and fun. Imitation can take you only so far, though. It's as easy to learn bad habits through imitation as it is to acquire good ones. The better way to become HTML-fluent is through a comprehensive reference that covers the language syntax, semantics, and variations in detail and helps you distinguish between good and bad usage.

HTML: The Definitive Guide helps you both ways: the authors cover every element of HTML in detail, explaining how each element works and how it interacts with other elements. Many hints about HTML style help you accomplish a variety of tasks, from simple online documentation to complex marketing and sales presentations. With hundreds of examples, the book gives you models for writing your own effective Web pages and mastering advanced features, like style sheets and frames.

HTML: The Definitive Guide shows you how to:

• Use style sheets and layers to control a document's appearance
• Create tables, from simple to complex
• Use Netscape's frames to coordinate sets of documents
• Design and build interactive forms
• Insert images, sound files, video, applets, and JavaScript programs
• Create dynamic documents with server-push and client-pull

A handy quick reference card listing HTML tags is included.

The World Wide Web is more than a place to put up clever documents and pretty pictures. With a little study and practice, you can offer interactive queries and serve instant information from databases, worked up into colorful graphics. That is what the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) offers.

This book offers a comprehensive explanation of CGI and related techniques for people who hold on to the dream of providing their own information servers on the Web.

Good scripting is not limited to a knowledge of CGI - you need to know something about other programming tools that organize data and make the output look attractive. Gundavaram starts at the beginning, explaining the value of CGI and how it works, and takes you swiftly into the subtle details of programming. The book offers a comprehensive look at the job of providing information dynamically on the Web.

For most of the examples, this book uses the most common platform (UNIX) and the most popular language (Perl) used for CGI programming today. However, it also introduces the essentials of making CGI work with other platforms and languages. The actual programming techniques are not too different from one platform and language to another; the lessons from this book can be applied to any tools you choose.

Topics include:

• Basic Perl techniques for parsing and output
• Embedding Server Side Includes (SSI)
• Graphics and simple animation
• Forms and magic cookies
• Gateways and SQL processing
• Internet communications
• Examples of games, imagemap manipulation, and other advanced applications

This definitive guide provides complete coverage of the Common Gateway Interface--commonly known as CGI--and related World Wide Web techniques, introducing many tools and languages that are useful for creating dynamic Web pages, including graphics and animation. The CD-ROM features sample programs and binaries for the NCSA server on many common platforms.

The World Wide Web is more than a place to put up clever documents and pretty pictures. With a little study and practice, you can offer interactive queries and serve instant information from databases, worked up into colorful graphics. That is what the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) offers. This book offers a comprehensive explanation of CGI and related techniques for people who hold on to the dream of providing their own information servers on the Web. Good scripting is not limited to a knowledge of CGI -- you need to know something about other programming tools that organize data and make the output look attractive. Gundavaram starts at the beginning, explaining the value of CGI and how it works, and takes you swiftly into the subtle details of programming. The book offers a comprehensive look at the job of providing information dynamically on the Web. For most of the examples, this book uses the most common platform (UNIX) and the most popular language (Perl) used for CGI programming today. However, it also introduces the essentials of making CGI work with other platforms and languages. The actual programming techniques are not too different from one platform and language to another; the lessons from this book can be applied to any tools you choose. Topics include: Basic Perl techniques for parsing and output Embedding Server Side Includes (SSI) Graphics and simple animation Forms and magic cookies Gateways and SQL processing Internet communications Examples of games, imagemap manipulation, and other advanced applications If Perl Itself Is The First Legend Of Larry Wall, This Book - Affectionately Known Everywhere As The Camel Book - Is The Second. If You Buy Only One Book About Perl, No One In The Perl Community Will Question Your Judgment In Buying This One. Contents Include An Extensive Overview Of The Language And Its Syntax; A Complete Reference For All Perl Functions, Operators, And Standard Library Modules; An Explanation Of Perl References And Complex Data Structures; A Detailed. Account Of Perl's Object-oriented Features; And Much More, Including Efficiency, Debugging, Invocation Options, Program Security, Interprocess Communication, Autoloading, Etc. An Overview Of Perl -- The Gory Details -- Functions -- References And Nested Data Structures -- Packages, Modules, And Object Classes -- Social Engineering -- The Standard Perl Library -- Other Oddments -- Diagnositic Messages -- Glossary -- Index. Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, And Randal L. Schwartz. Programming--cover. Includes Index. This reference guide to JavaScript, the HTML extension that gives Web pages programming-language capabilities, covers JavaScript as it is used in Netscape 3.0 and 2.0 and in Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0. The book includes the version of JavaScript shipped with Navigator 2.0, 2.0.1, and 2.0.2, and also the much-changed version of JavaScript shipped with Navigator 3.0. LiveConnect, used for communication between JavaScript and Java applets, and commonly encountered bugs on JavaScript objects, are also covered WebMaster in a Nutshell takes all the essential reference information for the Web and pulls it together into one slim volume. This book is a quick reference for anyone who works on the Web - content providers, programmers, and administrators alike. WebMaster in a Nutshell covers HTML 3.2, the markup language for Web documents; CGI, for creating interactive content on the Web; JavaScript, a scripting language that can be embedded directly into HTML to make interactive Web CGI Programming on the World Wide Web is aimed at programmers who are getting started with CGI. While this book teaches you the basics of CGI, it also goes far beyond the "everyday" variety of CGI applications. After introducing you to simple techniques, the book dives into detailed examples with advanced real-life solutions in CGI. The book includes examples of embedding counters into HTML pages, displaying dynamic graphics and pie graphs, animating graphics using Page; HTML extensions from Netscape Navigator 3.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0; examples and descriptions of the HTML tags for creating frames, tables, and fill-in forms; HTTP 1.1, the underlying protocol that drives the Web; configuration for the Apache, NCSA, CERN, Netscape, and Website servers; Perl 5, the programming language used most often for CGI; WinCGI, the CGI interface for Windows-based programming languages; Cookies, for maintaining state between This text provides an explanation of CGI and related techniques for people who want to provide their own information servers on the Web. It explains the value of CGI and how it works, and looks at the subtle details of programming. The accompanying CD-ROM includes sample programmes and NCSA server. This reference guide to JavaScript, the HTML extension that gives Web pages programming-language capabilities, covers JavaScript as it is used in Netscape 3.0 and 2.0 and in Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0. It includes the version of JavaScript shipped with Navigator 2.0, 2.0.1, and 2.0.2. Describing basic syntax and semantics, this guide goes on to explain how to create attractive, informative, and dynamic web documents using HTML. This edition covers the most up-to-date version of the HTML standard (the proposed HTML version 3.2), Netscape 4.0 and Internet Explorer 3.0. Multiple HTTP transactions ; and Server Side Includes, for embedding dynamic data into Web pages. WebMaster in a Nutshell breaks up these topics into concise, distinct chapters, designed to make it easy to find the information you want at a moment's notice The authors cover every element of HTML in detail, explaining how each element works and how it interacts with other elements, and provide hundreds of examples as models for writing your own effective Web pages and mastering advanced features This revised second edition contains a full explanation of the features in Perl version 5.0. It covers version 5.0 Perl syntax, functions, debugging, efficiency, and the Perl library. Also includes a Perl cookbook and a quick-reference card. Details a variety of front-end technologies and techniques and reviews Web design fundamentals while explaining how to work with HTML, graphics, and multimedia and interactive application. Five distinct subject areas including HTML (Hypertext Markup Language); CGI (Common Gateway Interface); HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol); JavaScript; Server configuration Pringing History January 1991 First Edition. August 1991 Minor Corrections. March 1992 Minor Corrections. September 1996 Second Edition. July 2000 Third Edition.