This is an invaluable resource for Web site developers. This is a must have book next to your computer. You will use this book so often that the pages will probably start falling out of the book! A lot of large (500 + paged) books on HTML will contain this same information, but this information is in a large hard to carry around book. Also, this specific information is a pain in the ass to search for in a large book everytime you need to refresh yourself on a certain tag and it's browser compatibility. This book is only 92 pages, contains all the tags in HTML 4.0 and is so small it will fit in your shirt or back pocket.
It's impossible for every Web site designer out there to have access to all the browsers that will be accessing their sites. I personally have access to Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. But, I don't have access to the WebTv or Opera browsers. So for most designers that are like me and only have access to about half of the browsers used on the Web today, need reference material that will help us to choose the best HTML tags for our sites that will allow our sites to be viewable and useable in all the main browsers used on the Web today. That's the purpose of this pocket book. It shows you what tags Netscape Navigator 2,3,4 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 2,3,4,5, WebTV and Opera 3 support.
Here's an example of what I mean:
I thought about the days a few years back when I was developing Java applets and I wondered to myself, if I wanted to include a Java applet today in one of my
Web sites, is the
<applet>
tag supported in the main four browsers that I have previously mentioned. To my shock, it isn't. The applet tag will not work in WebTV or Opera. So I thought to
myself.... well the
<object>
tag should work in all these browsers. But again, I was wrong. This tag also will not work in WebTV or Opera. But with the information provided in this book I was informed about the only tag that would work in all four of these browsers. It turns out that the:
<embed>
tag is the only tag that is supported in all four of these browsers. So if I decided I wanted to include a Java applet in one of my Web sites today, I would now use the "embed" tag. Without this book in my possession, I would of used the "applet" or "object" tag just assuming to myself that those tags would of been supported by the WebTV and Opera browsers, but that would of been a big mistake on my behalf. My Java applet would not of been viewable in those two Web browsers. Because of this book I was shown the correct tag to use that would allow my applet to be viewed in all the main browsers. This example alone proved to me that this book is worth having next to your computer at all times. I'm confident that every Web site designer out there who purchases this book will have the same beneficial experience with this book as I did that will justify the purchasing of it.
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