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Book:		Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide
Subject:		Disappointing
Date:		2008-01-20 12:03:17
From:		Thomas Garrod

Rating: This book is decidedly miss-titled. It is not definitive and it did not guide me greatly. The most obvious flaw is the lack of one single external CSS stylesheet. Honestly, doesn't inline style defeat the purpose of CSS? I'm no expert, and perhaps I'm way off base, but the book was very little help because it failed to provide the real world external style sheet context. I also felt that the book simple failed to cover critical content. Provide meaningful context with external style sheets and it would be much, much better. Also frustrating was its failure to define technical terms/jargon used in descriptions, and its failure to include critical concepts in its index. I would provide an example (I can't recall a single one), but the book was so worthless that I left it at home (I am on the road, on contract). This last is its most stinging endictment; I brought obsolete books by Colin Moock, just in case, but not CSS the difinitive guide.