Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005 EAN: 9781861005977 ISBN: 1861005970 Label: Peer Information Inc. Manufacturer: Peer Information Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 200 Publication Date: September 15, 2001 Publisher: Peer Information Inc. Sales Rank: 405737 Studio: Peer Information Inc.
Product DescriptionThe Curl Content Language, and the accompanying Surge Lab IDE represent one possible look at the future of web content. A fully object-oriented language, Curl takes the greatest features of HTML, Javascript, DHTML and Java and combines them into a cross-browser, cross-platform technology that's easy to learn and has some serious power behind it. The result of six year's development, Curl is the first language designed specifically to encompass all the problems of building a web application on the client-side and cut away the World Wide Wait we encounter everyday.
As well as providing a tutorial to the Curl language itself, this book also provides a great introduction to its graphics and multimedia capabilities and will give developers everything they need to know to start applying Curl technology in real world situations.
This book covers:
Explains what Curl is and how the web has evolved to need it
Concise introduction to the main features of the Curl content language
Surge Lab IDE for beta 5 and version 1.0
Curl as a replacement for HTML and CSS
Curl as a replacement for other script languages and the DOM
Dynamic page layout and generation of 2-/3-D graphics on the fly
Multimedia support in Curl
XML and the Future beyond v1.0
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - More Context Needed
With a book of this nature, it's hard separating an evaluation of the book from an evaluation of the technology itself -- so I won't try too hard. Yes, the book showed certain evidence of haste in editing and proofing but the errors and weaknesses are not of the type to cause an early adopter to stumble. For instance, there is no index but chapters are distinct enough so that it is easy to find the broad categories.
I eagerly picked up this book after attending a very impressive demo of ... Read More
Rating: - Good book with a few warts
Curl is an important new client-side web language that permits you to create web applications that have the same rich interactive power of local applications (Word, Excel) while reducing the complexity that arises from using multiple existing web languages.
This is currently the BEST Curl book on the market. Ok, it's currently the ONLY Curl book on the market, which makes it Good News/Bad News.
Good News: This book does a great job of providing Curl information and "how to" examples ... Read More
Rating: - Technology that may never take off
If you have never been to curls website and looked at this new web technology, you do not know what you are missing. In some ways, you can think of Curl as Flash on steroids, although you can do much more than the eye candy Macromedia is known for.
They call this book an early adopter book, but, since I think Curl is most likely going to go the way of Microsoft Agent, it is more a Bleeding Edge book. Unlike Microsoft Agent, however, I do think this technology is very useful.
Rating: - A must for getting up to speed with Curl technology
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"EA Curl" will help you get up to speed quickly with advanced online applications that will blow Java right out of the water!
Curl technology has the potential of becoming the future of the web, and is being called the X-Internet by some (for executable internet).
Even though the online, interactive docs that come with the Curl IDE (Surge Lab) are excellent, and comprehensive (not to mention free), if you are serious about using Curl to put the web to work, then you should ... Read More
