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CSS: The Missing Manual |
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Good book but what is up with Microsoft |
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2009-06-24 08:43:45 |
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pgflrob
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This is a good book on CSS. Great on formating text. I like the lesson followed by tutorial style.
It is based on the current web design religion of not using tables to layout a web page but it sure is complicated to use CSS (i.e. negative margins!)
Then to make matters worse, as you move through the book, each chapter teaches you how to do a specific thing and then you are told about the hacks you have to do to get IE to work with the CSS!!! Very annoying. I develop using a Mac, but want my websites to hold up under IE. So I think I will stick with table based layouts.
This is not a fault of the book but of the unintuitive tricks required to use CSS for layout, and Microsoft's poor coding practices and adherence to standards.
The book could go a lot further in explaining various menuing techniques.
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Re: Good book but what is up with Microsoft, June 24 2009
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Nan Barber |
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Thank you for your comments about CSS: The Missing Manual. It's true that Internet Explorer 6 still a presents a big challenge for Web designers.
Thank you for your suggestion about menuing techniques. I will pass this information along to the author.
Please let me know if you have any further questions about the book.
Nan Barber
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