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CSS: The Missing Manual |
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Great CSS Primer and Beyond |
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2006-12-19 09:51:03 |
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Ivan
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The book explains so much of CSS that I now feel quite comfortable doing design work, (D)HTML and AJAX client projects even though I'm a middle and back-end tier software engineer. Very good explanations and workarounds for browser quirks. I will no longer think of HTML as a design mechanism - only as a means to structure content. CSS is now my preferred way of designing websites.
Only one annoyance while reading this book (and it kept coming): the author's use of contractions seemed completely out of place! So much so that you have to re-read many of his comments in order to understand what he is saying. For example, the author writes, "A common technique's to float a <div> tag..." "...if the text is 1em and the line-height value's 1.5, then... the effect's no different than..." I'm not sure the author likes the word "is." It seemed the editor was asleep at the wheel on this one.
Anyway, my only gripe aside, this is a very, very good CSS book.
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