Re^5: Tabbed html interfaces using perl??

If you're basing your opinion about "CGI Programming with Perl" (the 2nd edition of the Mouse book) on your experience with "CGI Programming on the World Wide Web" (the 1st edition of the mouse book), you're doing the 2nd edition a disservice. The 2nd is a pretty good book. It discusses templating systems, database interaction, web security, the CGI.pm module, and many other current-day topics. The 1st edition (which had a slightly different title, but still had a mouse on the cover) is indeed outdated, and not all that helpful in the year 2004. But I completely disagree with ruling out the 2nd edition; it's a totally different book.

Dave

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Re^6: Tabbed html interfaces using perl?? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Oct 21, 2004 at 06:58 UTC
Disagreements are the spice of an active system. :) It's the 2nd ed in my shelf. It just hasn't been opened since 2001 unlike all my other perl books (well, except the DBI book but that's for another thread). The 2nd ed is still out of date. It's the HTML standards of 1998. CGI is the lion's share of what I've done with perl and I really believe picking up web technologies and plain perl is more helpful than a CGI Survey 101 (it's one of the slimmer O'Reilly volumes for one of the deepest topics).	[reply]

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Re^6: Tabbed html interfaces using perl??
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Oct 21, 2004 at 06:58 UTC

Disagreements are the spice of an active system. :) It's the 2nd ed in my shelf. It just hasn't been opened since 2001 unlike all my other perl books (well, except the DBI book but that's for another thread). The 2nd ed is still out of date. It's the HTML standards of 1998. CGI is the lion's share of what I've done with perl and I really believe picking up web technologies and plain perl is more helpful than a CGI Survey 101 (it's one of the slimmer O'Reilly volumes for one of the deepest topics).

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