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Title: CSS Pocket Reference by Eric A. Meyer ISBN: 0596001207 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 3
Summary: Obsolete before it hit the shelves
Comment: This book does not cover CSS2 nor any of the new versions of the most popular browsers: IE 6, Opera 6, and Netscape 7. Because of these omissions, a significant amount of CSS functionality that is available on most users' browsers is not even mentioned. My advice: find a book that is more up-to-date and buy it instead of this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: a good reference
Comment: This is a good pocket reference that will give you the syntax for defining your Style sheet elements. Don't look for pictures in the book because it's mostly just syntax. If you need to look something up quickly than just flip thru the alphabetized list of elements. I like the browser compatibility charts that are included for CSS.
Rating: 2
Summary: No CSS2 information makes for waning usefulness
Comment: As a web developer, I've been involved with doing more coding work using CSS in my pages as browsers such as Mozilla have come on the scene. So far, I've relied on Danny Goodman's book "Dynamic HTML", also published by O'Reilly. It has a chapter on CSS, and its coverage, while covering all attributes in CSS1 and CSS2, was a bit lacking in some details. (It was published in 1998.) Dynamic HTML is also a 1000+ page Bible of sorts, and felt unwieldy to refer to often. I wanted something lighter and more up-to-date.
Thus, I bought this book, not realizing that it only covers CSS1... surprising since it was published less than a year ago, nearly three years AFTER Goodman's book was published. Dynamic HTML already has excellent treatment of CSS1, and I was really more after a guide on the exciting features to be found in CSS2. I promptly returned the book.
I'd still only give the guide 4 out of 5 stars if it had the CSS2 attributes. Half of the book is devoted to tables showing the support for each attribute in about 10 different browsers; excuse me, but are there _that_ many users of Opera that we need to know the differences between Opera 4 and 5, on the Windows and Mac platforms? It's a bit too overwhelming, using up space which would have been better used on more examples and tricks.
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Title: HTML Pocket Reference (2nd Edition) by Jennifer Niederst ISBN: 0596002963 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Javascript Pocket Reference by David Flanagan ISBN: 1565925211 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide by Eric A. Meyer ISBN: 1565926226 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: XML Pocket Reference (2nd Edition) by Robert Eckstein ISBN: 0596001339 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: HTTP Pocket Reference by Clinton Wong ISBN: 1565928628 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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