Creating DHTML Applications

Conclusion

The advantage of enabling developers to create their own library of assets, following a certain methodology, is that he or she can use his or her own code and style of syntax, while creating extensible and reusable code.

Applying the methodology correctly should result in:

• shorter code
• comprehensible code
• faster development

About the Author:

Dries Samyn was born in Belgium, and moved to London 2 years ago. Although he has a Product Design degree, He has always been more interested in Digital Media, and has been been creative with Internet technology since 1996. At the time of this writing, Dries worked as Interface Development Lead at Razorfish, in London, and lists the following recently completed projects:

• http://www.razorfish.com
• http://www.panalpina.com
• http://www.city-reach.com

Contents:

• Introduction
• Methodology
• Technique
  • Solving problems on the DOM-level: the mElement() function
  • PROPERTY scripting
  • BEHAVIOR scripting
• Case Study
  • BEHAVIOR scripting
  • PROPERTY / DOM scripting; Summary
• Conclusion