Windows Vista Sidebar: Your visual blueprint for developing cool gadgets for the Windows OS
Filed in Cool Gadgets on May.24, 2010
Product Description
Here’s the only series that teaches professional-level computer topics visually. Step-by-step screen shots demonstrate over 150 Windows Vista Sidebar techniques, including creating a gadget HTML interface; setting gadget height, width, and font; applying visual effects to text; using JavaScript in a gadget; adding or hiding content in a gadget display; building a flyout panel; defining default settings for gadgets; using XMLHttpRequest to download data; handling l… More >>
Windows Vista Sidebar: Your visual blueprint for developing cool gadgets for the Windows OS
May 24th, 2010 at 4:33 am
I am a long time programmer, and familiar with procedural languages and JavaScript. I’ve written Yahoo widgets thus I am familiar with the concepts, so how hard could the extra HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, AJAX be?
Answer? Immensely, and this book does not help. There are a number of examples, one on every page. They are simplistic, not extendable, and frequently useless. There is no summary of extensions, commands, events (the usual stuff one needs in a reference) and no discussion worth a hoot of the g:Image, g:Background etc objects provided by Microsoft.
If you are not already an experienced web page programmer, DO NOT get this book as it is incomplete.
If you are a web page programmer, DO NOT get this book as it is too simplistic.
There is, unfortunately, not too much out there yet, but I don’t think this will be the answer you seek.
Rating: 2 / 5