JavaScript for Programmers

436 Pages·2009·12.215 MB·English

by  Paul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel

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ASP.NET 3.5 Web 3D Technologies ASP.NET
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Apex Foundation C# Attention Economy
ASP.NET Ajax XHTML DotNetNuke (DNN) Blogging
ASP.NET XML Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Building Web
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C++ Games and Game .NET Community Generated
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C# gramming SharePoint Platform
Code Search Engines and Computer Games Silverlight Facebook Social Ads
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Contents
Preface xv
Before You Begin xxiii
1
Introduction 1
1.1 Introduction 2
1.2 History of the Internet and World Wide Web 3
1.3 World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) 5
1.4 Web 2.0 5
1.5 Key Software Trend: Object Technology 7
1.6 JavaScript: Object-Based Scripting for the Web 8
1.7 Browser Portability 9
1.8 Web Resources 9
2
Introduction to XHTML 10
2.1 Introduction 11
2.2 Editing XHTML 12
2.3 First XHTML Example 12
2.4 W3C XHTML Validation Service 15
2.5 Headings 15
2.6 Linking 16
2.7 Images 19
2.8 Special Characters and Horizontal Rules 22
2.9 Lists 24
2.10 Tables 27
2.11 Forms 31
2.12 Internal Linking 38
2.13 meta Elements 40
2.14 Web Resources 42
3
Cascading Style Sheets™ (CSS) 43
3.1 Introduction 44
3.2 Inline Styles 45
3.3 Embedded Style Sheets 46
3.4 Conflicting Styles 49