Now in the Fourth Edition, Programming the World Wide Web provides a comprehensive introduction to the tools and skills required for both client- and server-side programming, teaching students how to develop platform-independent sites using current Web development technology. Essential programming exercises are presented using a manageable progression: Students begin with a foundational XHTML Web site and employ new languages and technologies to add features as they are discussed in the course. Readers with previous experience programming with an object-oriented language are guided through concepts relating to client-side and server-side programming, including ASP.NET using C#, JavaScript™, Java™ servlets, Ajax, JSP™, XHTML, XML, Perl™, PHP, Ruby, and Ruby on Rails.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Fundamentals 1.1 A Brief Introduction to the Internet 1.2 The World Wide Web 1.3 Web Browsers 1.4 Web Servers 1.5 Uniform Resource Locators 1.6 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions 1.7 The Hypertext Transfer Protocol 1.8 Security 1.9 The Web Programmer’s Toolbox 1.10 Summary Review Questions Exercises Chapter 2 Introduction to XHTML 2.1 Origins and Purposes of HTML and XHTML 2.2 Basic Syntax 2.3 Standard XHTML Document Structure 2.4 Basic Text Markup 2.5 Images 2.6 Hypertext Links 2.7 Lists 2.8 Tables 2.9 Forms 2.10 Frames 2.11 Syntactic Differences between HTML and XHTML 2.12 Summary Review Questions Exercises Chapter 3 Cascading Style Sheets 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Levels of Style Sheets 3.3 Style Specification Formats 3.4 Selector Formats 3.5 Property Value Forms 3.6 Font Properties 3.7 List Properties 3.8 Color 3.9 Alignment of Text 3.10 The Box Model 3.11 Background Images 3.12 The and Tags 3.13 Summary Review Questions Exercises Chapter 4 The Basics of JavaScript 4.1 Overview of JavaScript 4.2 Object Orientation and JavaScript 4.3 General Syntactic Characteristics 4.4 Primitives, Operations, and Expressions 4.5 Screen Output and Keyboard Input 4.6 Control Statements 4.7 Object Creation and Modification 4.8 Arrays 4.9 Functions 4.10 An Example 4.11 Constructors 4.12 Pattern Matching Using Regular Expressions 4.13 Another Example 4.14 Errors in Scripts 4.15 Summary Review Questions Exercises Chapter 5 JavaScript and HTML Documents 5.1 The JavaScript Execution Environment 5.2 The Document Object Model 5.3 Element Access in JavaScript 5.4  Events and Event Handling 5.5 Handling Events from Body Elements 5.6 Handling Events from Button Elements 5.7 Handling Events from Text Boxes and Password Elements 5.8  The DOM 2 Event Model 5.9 The navigator Object 5.10 DOM Tree Traversal and Modification 5.11 Summary Review Questions Exercises Chapter 6 Dynamic Documents with JavaScript 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Positioning Elements 6.3 Moving Elements 6.4 Element Visibility 6.5 Changing Colors and Fonts 6.6 Dynamic Content 6.7 Stacking Elements 6.8 Locating the Mouse Cursor 6.9 Reacting to a Mouse Click 6.10 Slow Movement of Elements 6.11 Dragging and Dropping Elements 6.12 Summary Review Questions Exercises Chapter 7 Introduction to XML 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The Syntax of XML 7.3 XML Document Structure 7.4 Document Type Definitions 7.5 Namespaces 7.6 XML Schemas 7.7 Displaying Raw XML Documents 7.8 Displaying XML Documents with CSS 7.9  XSLT Style Sheets 7.10 XML Processors 7.11 Web Services 7.12 Summary Review Questions Exercises Chapter 8 The Basics of Perl 8.1 Origins and Uses of Perl 8.2 Scalars and Their Operations 8.3 Assignment Statements and Simple Input and Output 8.4 Control Statements 8.5 Fundamentals of Arrays 8.6 Hashes 8.7 References 8.8 Functions 8.9 Pattern Matching 8.10 File Input and Output 8.11 An Example 8.12 Summary Review Questions Exercises Chapter 9 Using Perl for CGI Programming 9.1 The Common Gateway Interface 9.2 CGI Linkage 9.3 Query String Format 9.4 The CGI.pm Module 9.5 A Survey Example 9.6 Cookies 9.7 Summary Review Questions Exercises Chapter 10 Servlets and Java Server Pages 10.1 Overview of Servlets 10.2 Servlet Details 10.3 A Survey Example 10.4 Storing Information on Clients 10.5 Java Server Pages 10.6 Summary Review Questions Exercises Chapter 11 Introduction to PHP 11.1 Origins and Uses of PHP 11.2 Overview of PHP 11.3 General Syntactic Characteristics 11.4 Primitives, Operations, and Expressions 11.5 Output 11.6 Control Statements 11.7 Arrays 11.8 Functions 11.9 Pattern Matching 11.10 Form Handling 11.11 Files 11.12 Cookies 11.13 Session Tracking 11.14 Summary Review Questions Exercises Chapter 12 Introduction to ASP.NET 12.1 Overview of the .NET Framework 12.2 Overview of C# 12.3 Introduction to ASP.NET 12.4 ASP.NET Controls 12.5 Web Services 12.6 Summary Review Questions Exercises Chapter 13 Database Access through the Web 13.1 Relational Databases 13.2 An Introduction to the Structured Query Language 13.3 Architectures for Database Access 13.4 The MySQL Database System 13.5 Database Access with Perl and MySQL 13.6 Database Access with PHP and MySQL 13.7 Database Access with JDBC and MySQL 13.8 Summary Review Questions Exercises Chapter 14 Introduction to Ruby 14.1 Origins and Uses of Ruby 14.2 Scalar Types and Their Operations 14.3 Simple Input and Output 14.4 Control Statements 14.5 Fundamentals of Arrays 14.6 Hashes 14.7 Methods 14.8 Classes 14.9 Code Blocks and Iterators 14.10 Pattern Matching 14.11 Summary Review Questions Exercises Chapter 15 Introduction to Rails 15.1 Overview of Rails 15.2 Document Requests 15.3 Processing Forms 15.4 Rails Applications and Databases 15.5 Layouts 15.6 Summary Review Questions Exercises Chapter 16 Introduction to Ajax 16.1 Overview of Ajax 16.2 The Basics of Ajax 16.3 Rails with Ajax 16.4 Summary Review Questions Exercises Appendices Appendix A Introduction to Java Appendix B Named Colors Appendix C Java Applets Index