Books out of date?

[bhsup]

I was just browsing Amazon for some web development books. I would very much prefer the O'Reilly series of books. Unfortunately, their books on DHTML, XHTML, and Javascripting are all pushing four years old. Their CSS book is about 1 1/2 years old, so I'm not too concerned about that one.

Are the others outdated yet? They predate the Mozilla Suite and Firefox, and I'm not sure just where they are when discussing up-to-date standards.

The books in question:

HTML & XHTML; The Definitive Guide (August, 2002)

Javascript; The Definitive Guide (December, 2001)

Dynamic HTML; The Definitive Reference (September, 2002)

 

[homeyg]

It depends on if the HTML standard (if there is one) has changed in the past 4 years. If not, then the books wouldn't be out of date.

EDIT: I don't know if the standard has changed as I don't know much about HTML.

 

[dragokatzov]

yes and no
you can still use these HTML languages and they will work, even with Mozilla and Firefox. just becasue they are old, does not mean they will not work. some of the basic code is the same used in the early 90's