Web Standards
HTML, CSS, JavaScript,® Perl, Python,® and PHP
Serving as both a "how-to" guide and a reference, this book is
one-stop reading for all the essential Web standardsXHTML, CSS,
JavaScript, CGI with Perl and Python, and PHP. In today''s web
environment, professional web coders and serious enthusiasts need
to create documents and scripts that comply with published
standards so your content can be viewed on as many web-capable
platforms as possible. This book teaches the standards and
technologies necessary to achieve that desired result.
Packed with examples for learning each of these standard
technologies and followed by detailed references to each language,
this book provides a total package for moving your web publishing
to current standards-based coding.
What you will learn from this book
- A solid background and understanding of HTML and applying XHTML
to format specific document elements
- Using CSS to select and format text, margins, colors, and other
elements and position them on the page
- Applying JavaScript for client-side scripting and dynamic
content delivery
- Using server scripts and CGI with the popular Perl and Python
languages
- Publishing rich, dynamic content using the PHP scripting
language
- The importance of following web standards to ensure
compatibility with as many user agents as possible, including
Internet Explorer, the increasingly important and popular Firefox,
and the latest crop of mobile platforms
- How to avoid browser-specific code and deprecated tags and
attributes that cause your documents to be unusable for many
users
Who this book is for
The book is for programmers and web coders who want to learn web
standards-compliant coding.
Wrox Programmer''s References are designed to give the
experienced developer straight facts on a technology, without hype
or unnecessary explanations. They deliver hard information with
plenty of practical examples to help you apply these tools to your
development projects today.