"Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, Third Edition" by Danny Goodman is now available from O'Reilly, which bills the book as the "ultimate one-stop resource for HTML, XHTML, CSS, Document Object Model (DOM), and JavaScript development." Developers of rich Internet applications working in such browsers as Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2, Safari and Opera will find Goodman's revised edition an invaluable tool, the publisher reports.

"Dynamic HTML" provides browser support for the latest standards-based technologies, according to O'Reilly, including CSS Level 3, DOM Level 3, Web Forms 2.0, XMLHttpRequest for AJAX applications, JavaScript 1.7, and many more.

The book is replete with at-a-glance references for the tags, attributes, objects, properties, methods, and events of HTML, XHTML, CSS, DOM and core JavaScript, enabling users to quickly look up a particular feature or language term to see if it is available in desired browser brands and versions.

Cross referencing enables users to look up an attribute (or object property, method, or event type) to find all the items that recognize it, including inter-related HTML tags, style properties and document object model methods, properties and events.

The book's appendices are a source of values useful in HTML authoring and scripting, including coverage of commands used across three browsers for user-editable content. And the glossary offers quick explanations of some of the new and potentially confusing terminology of DHTML.

Of the book, Goodman himself says, "After struggling in the early Version 4 browser days with tangled online references and monstrous printed versions of Netscape, Microsoft, and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) documentation for Dynamic HTML features, I had had enough. My human brain could no longer store the parallels and discrepancies of the hundreds of terms for HTML attributes, styles sheets, and scriptable object models. And no browser maker was about to tell me how compatible a particular feature might be in! another browser. It was clearly time to roll my own reference."

Because of the evolution in web standards and the implementations in modern web browsers, Goodman continues, the second edition of his book no longer did everything he wished it to.

"Web standards and implementations in modern web browsers have evolved significantly since the publication of the second edition. The term 'Ajax' didn't even exist back then. It was time to expand coverage to include not only the new terminology that had been added, but also the latest available browsers," notes Goodman.

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