- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: ADDISON WESLEY; 2 edition (1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0201596253
- ISBN-13: 978-0201596250
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 18.5 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 590 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,391,445 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book should be on every web content provider, every web designer's shelf. It is the definitive reference on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the elegant and efficient way to add and manage elements of style (fonts, color, layout) within web documents. Cascading Style Sheets, Second edition, is a clear, readable, informative and thorough look at the World Wide Web Consortium's specification for CSS2, written by the World's leading authorities on CSS.
This book contains:
• complete coverage of CSSI and CSS2
• background information and practical examples
• information on which browsers support which CSS features
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was created to lead the Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its vendor-neutral operability. It is an international consortium with over 300 Member organizations.
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About the Author
Håkon Lie is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab where he worked in the Electronic Publishing group. After working as a reseacher for Norwegian Telecom for some years, he entered into the cradle of the Web, the WWW project of the CERN Physics Laboratory in Geneva. In July 1995 he started the W3 Consortium's technical activities Europe and is now responsible for Style Sheets within W3C. Bert Bos completed his Ph.D. in Groningen, The Netherlands, on a prototyping language for graphical user interfaces. He then went on to develop browser software and support for humanities scholars, before joining the W3C at INRIA/Sophia-Antipolis in October 1995. He is now working on HTML internationalization issues and style sheets.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Poorly oragnized, but not totally useless,
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This review is from: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS: DESIGNING FOR THE WEB (Paperback)
There are some issues with this book that are purely the publisher's fault. (I am sure the authors are just as annoyed as I am.) Let's get them out of the way first.Inside the back and front covers are what appears to be a handy quick reference. Great idea - except almost all the page numbers are wrong! That makes it completely useless. I have scratched in corrections in my copy, but I am not about to do a complete revision. The first edition had this same flaw, and I had hoped that the second would fix the problem. The index is iffy. That's probably a clue right there to the wishy-washy structure of the book. It seems to be all over the place, with crucial bits of information about a topic filed away under some other topic, often in an example. As a reference work, it's very, very poor. It's written as if the reader is going to read it from start to finish and remember its entire contents. Yeah right. Finally, the complete lack of real-world information about just how badly the various browsers support CSS is rather annoying. Sure, I understand that that stuff gets out of date quickly, but for designers who are targeting NS 4.7, it's useful to know what works and what doesn't. Its sole saving grace (those two stars) is that is does in fact cover most of CSS - by hook or by crook. The examples, though contrived (and again, unrelated to the real world) do illustrate the concepts to a greater or lesser degree.
3.0 out of 5 stars
So so... Probably not for an absolute beginner,
By Lisa Bradshaw (Pompano Beach, Fl USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS: DESIGNING FOR THE WEB (Paperback)
This book is so so. It's got me through some tight spots while designing. The down side is that it has no real structure to it. It is all over the place when looking for specific topics and doesn't seem to have any coherent order to it. The index could be better. There are also not a lot of good examples. If you are an absolute beginner, you should pass this one by and get O'reily's CSS Definitive Guide instead.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Buy this book if you are new to CSS.,
By Tom Cervenka (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS: DESIGNING FOR THE WEB (Paperback)
That's what I did and I'm glad I did. This is not the only book you'll need but it is the one you must have. If you are new to CSS, you'll also be new to it's structure and syntax and this book explains this better than any others I've read. The classification of HTML elements into CSS element types (ie. block vs. inline) is hardly seen elsewhere. I think the extensive discussion on fonts was interesting and required for understanding how to code CSS so the browsers will display what you want or as close as you can get. I also enjoyed the style and look of the book itself.
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