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| Book: | HTML Pocket Reference | |
| Subject: | HTML Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition Review | |
| Date: | 2003-02-24 10:04:57 | |
| From: | Mike Agnes | |
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Rating:
 
The "Reference" in the work's title is unearned. A browse through the list of errata reported on this website for the printed book is hair-raising. A reference book is one we are expected to trust. After two editions, for example, the author seems still not to have grasped character entities and their independence of the Macintosh platform. This is not a difficult subject to cover: as will all HTML specifications, the W3C has the complete listing, so there is no reason for errata. A well-done equivalent of this book would be extremely valuable. Perhaps another imprint can exercise the sort of quality control that used to be expected of publishers and produce a genuinely worthwhile book in this format.
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