Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong! | 
 enlarge | Authors: Rachel Andrew, Kevin Yank
Publisher: SitePoint
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Product Description
Get ready to experience an eye-opening expos on CSS as you know it today. You'll discover a fresh approach to coding Cascading Style Sheets, making old hacks and workarounds a distant memory. In this book, you'll learn how to start taking full advantage of Internet Explorer 8 using the very latest CSS techniques -- whilst still catering for those nasty old browsers. You'll unearth what's put the final nail in the HTML table-based layout coffin, and gain an understanding from two experts why CSS has a very bright future. Some of the valuable insights in this book include: - how you can take full advantage of IE8
- how to take CSS tables to the limit and beyond
- letting you say goodbye to old hacks and workarounds FOREVER!
- help you rediscover what you first loved about CSS
- ensure make the most of what CSS has to offer
- understand the road ahead for CSS
CSS was conceived in an age when web site design was simple; its creators never anticipated the level of intricacy required in the designs that it would be asked to deliver today. Clever designers figured out ways to make CSS do what they needed, but using techniques so convoluted that it became unpredictable and difficult to master. CSS just became too hard ... The good news is, that's all about to change, and this book will show you how!
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 Interesting review of state of CSS December 17, 2008
This book was a quick read. I found the review of the current state of CSS versus the promise of future table-related codes interesting. I can't wait to use the new CSS codes in my work.
A must read but too short and only really covers one subject December 12, 2008
This is a very strange title for a book and I was extremely intrigued by it. I've been laying out web pages for years now with CSS and for a book to come along and suggest that everything I had been doing was wrong was a bit of a bold statement.
This is quite a short book weighing in at just over 110 pages and really only deals with one topic, however it does that in-depth. The style of writing is good and flowing and it feels like you're just reading a magazine article.
This book deals with CSS layout for the latest browsers and talks a lot about the upcoming version of IE8 and how it fixes things so that now you can use CSS 2 styles on your site and they will work across all major browsers (as long as you're running the latest ones, Firefox 3, Opera 9 etc.) and now that Internet Explorer is finally supporting web standards it will work on Microsoft's browser platform as well.
In that respect, all the tricks and work-arounds that you've had to learn in the past to get layouts looking correct are indeed wrong as you will no longer need to use them, for example using floats to get multiple columns.
The main thrust of this book is positioning using CSS tables. The book explains what these are, how they are different from HTML tables but create the same results, some of the pitfalls you may come across (there is no equivalent to colspan or rowspan for example) and how to code for these instances. The introduction of web standards across all major browser platforms and the adherence to CSS 2 specifications will make web designers and programmers immensely easier and this book explains how.
There is also a chapter dedicated to backwards compatibility and what you should be doing with layouts and yet still make things look on older browsers like Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7.
The final chapter of the book deals with some things to look forward that are currently part of the CSS 3 working draft and how they will make your job even easier yet.
This is one of those books that I actually have a hard time reviewing, not for the content, the style and layout etc. but for giving it a rating. I think this is a must read book for anybody who designs or layouts web pages, whether you a graphic designer or programmer or in-between however the book is very short and really only deals with a single topic, even though it does it in-depth. The book is in full color which makes it a beautiful book however it's also a book that you would perhaps only read or twice and wouldn't be used a reference book so the longevity takes a hit. I wish the book had more to it and covered a few more topics. That said, I still stick by what I say in that everyone who designs or codes web pages should read this as it will make their jobs a lot easier.
 Love SitePoint-This is first real turkey from tehm December 5, 2008
First off, let me say on the whole I love SitePoint's books. I rate them right up there with O'Reilly, Apress, and Friends-Of-Ed books for first rate content.
This book is a major disappointment. As someone stated with another review, IE6 is far from dead.
This book lacks the 'meat' that has been a hallmark of SitePoint books. There are better CSS resources out there.
 You Have Got To Be Kidding December 3, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
CSS Tables. They'll work in IE8, as they have in Opera, Safari, Firefox, Chrome, etc. etc. for a while now. There. I just summed up the entire point of this book. Will you use them? No. Not if you want to keep your site accessible to people using IE6-7 while they're still a majority. In a few years, when older versions of IE have faded, then you might pick up something like this book. But this book could have been titled "Everything on the cover of this book is wrong!" and it would have been more accurate. Don't waste your time or money.
What They Know About Tables is Wrong December 3, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is short and to the point which I like. It's a good primer for where the world of HTML and CSS layout is headed. I would consider their excitement about ie8 and universal support for CSS tables very premature since a huge number of browsers out there are still ie6.
One of the books writers, Cameron Adams, makes a comment about using tables for layout saying "The only problem is, they're evil." What a weenie. They work. They're very browser compatible. Dang, what do you want. There is no magic wand in CSS tables.
It's fun to dink around with them but you'll still end up with ie6 (true evil) fixes all over the place. ;-)
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