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The Comprehensive Guide to VBScript: The Encyclopedic Reference for VBScript, HTML & ActiveX | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Mansfield
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Category: Book
List Price: $39.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1463607
Media: Paperback
Pages: 864
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.3
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.5 x 2.3
ISBN: 1566044707
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2
EAN: 9781566044707
ASIN: 1566044707
Publication Date: November 1, 1996
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Product Description
Covers every feature and copmmand in VBScript. Includes a description, command, syntax, variables, and uses and cautions for each entry. Explains common Internet programming concepts and acronyms.
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Having no Index is Really Lame January 20, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book is pretty much okay except that it lacks an index. This makes using it as a reference sometimes difficult. If you know exactly what things are called you can look them up in the alphabetical listing. Otherwise, you are kind of screwed.
You too, can be an author of a book. October 15, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought the above critic was being a bit too harsh on an author... until I read it myself. Although in the "Who needs this Book?" section it mentions that "...this book can assist anyone from the beginner to the accomplished professional programmer.", I have to disagree and say that a new beginner may be confused by many of the inaccurate and dated statements. For example, I love the one that says (paraphrasing) you shouldn't use the !DOCTYPE statement because only HTML 3.2 browsers can read it anyway. Why would you ever commit such a line to print?? In many cases, this book was outdated before it went to press. It really became a problem after reading completely inaccurate statements, then not knowing weather following statements were accurate or not.On the plus side, I liked the way it was indexed. It offered a good reference resource to those that couldn't quite remember the exact syntax, but already knew what the functions did. I noticed that the "Comprehensive Guide to VBScript" might have been comprehensive THEN, but it's missing a lot TODAY. I could have probably got the same info online somewhere though, but I always like to have a hard copy handy. This one, however, made me feel like even I could be an author of a VBscript book. And that's not saying much.
 the Comprehensive Guide to VBScript , an excellent reference April 20, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
True some of the wording in the book is a little off, but the Syntax and the depth of explaination regaurding the tags is invalueable. I have yet to find another reference book that explains the syntaxes and how to use them more complete than in this book. I use it as a reference to HTML 3.2 and ActiveX controls constantly
 HTML is NOT a programming language!!!!!!!!! March 4, 1998
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
*Could* make a pretty handy dictionary, *if* you can ignore the irritating, inaccurate, and uneducated claims and editorials (mostly found in the introduction/tutorial) all based on the premise that HTML is a programming language.
Examples:
page xxiii: "What in HTML is called a 'tag' is called a 'structure' or 'function' in other languages."--WRONG. HTML tags are simply *tokens* which the browser *parses* to determine the output.
page xxvii: "No other computer programming language comes close to HTML's forgiveness. Try submitting [a text document containing only the string] 'A Simple Page' to Basic, Pascal, C, or any other language. None of them will simply display the words. All of them will choke and throw out an error message."--WRONG!! First, there's no such thing as submitting anything to a language. You *can* 'submit' input to a *program* written in a programming language- such as an internet browser- and if that program is *designed* to handle that input, it *will* simply display the words. Otherwise, if the program is *not designed* to handle the input, it *will* choke and spit out an error message. It is irritating to have spent money on a developer's reference, written by someone who clearly does not have a grasp of programming *basics*.
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