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Core CSS: Cascading Style Sheets (2nd Edition)
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Author: Keith Schengili-Roberts
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 0130092789
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (29 August, 2003)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 29,473
Average Customer Rating: 4.23 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
The most solid CSS reference I have seen yet
I love this book. Each CSS 1, 2 and proposed CSS 3 property is listed along with examples, browser support or lack thereof, and then goes on to detail exactly what bits are not supported. This book belongs on every designer/developer's shelf and will be valid for a long time.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Very Good Intermediate-level Reference Guide
Last week, my employer told me to redesign several online html templates used to provide product documentation to customers. The new design needs to use html today, but be ready to support XML in the future. I decided that css style sheets were the way to go, but I know little about how to implement them. I am not a programmer -- just a "power-amateur." I needed help. My local Barnes and Noble had one book in the whole MonsterStore about css -- It was "Core CSS." I bought it because I needed it immediately.
"Core CSS" turned out to be a well-written, well-organized, thorough, nearly-error-free book, which surprised me. It also answered several small questions I had, which made it worth buying -- but it would have been very difficult to use, if I hadn't had some experience with web programming already.
"Core CSS" lacks four things: 1) a really, really good introductory chapter that shows me exactly what css is and how it is used on an html page, 2) some really good two-page examples of "best-practice" css stylesheet implementations ( I am baffled that the book lacks this), 3)a MUCH better discussion of inheritance -- when, why and HOW to do it, and 4)a separate chapter on web page design basics using css.
Still, I was surprised at how good this book really is. It manages to very clearly and painlessly summarize a hash of difficult W3C/Microsoft/Netscape/GodKnowsWho Specifications, and provides the most consciencious reference to browser support that I could have hoped for -- and that's important, given the state of browser support and the complete obliviousness of Employers who ask "power-user" employees to support everything their customers use. This is a fine, useful book. I expect the Third Edition to be a classic.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent Reference
I wouldn't use this book to learn CSS, but people who are familiar with it and need a reference should definitely consider this book. Not only are all the elements explained, but browser compatibility information is provided for each of them.
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