Publisher's Synopsis
The World Wide Web is rapidly evolving new technologies such as XML, and new applications such as e–commerce. This book introduces the most important web technologies and shows how they can be used on todays websites. From client development using HTML and Javascript, through to full server side applications writtten in ASP and Perl, the complete web system is shown. Concentrating on immediately useful code rather than theory, this is a how–to book for programmers who need quick answers.
Find your introduction to new and established web technologies here and see how they relate to one another:
Dynamic HTML
XHTML
XML
Perl 5
Perl CGI Scripts
JavaScript
ASP
Java Servlets
Visit the booksite http://ducati.cms.shu.ac.uk/∼cmscb where you will find:
– working instances of the pages from the book including DHTML using Javascript
– sample pages to demonstrate XML processing on the Web
– an interactive DHTML/XML recipe book
