- Paperback: 792 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd.; 2nd Edition edition (July 20 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0764534734
- ISBN-13: 978-0764534737
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 18.8 x 4.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,831,706 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In HTML 4 Bible, you will find a comprehensive definition of what is considered state of the art in Web-publishing languages. The book explains HTML tags and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) thoroughly, and it gives some attention to JavaScript as well.
Authors Pfaffenberger and Gutzman use a helpful problem-and-solution format that provides straightforward answers to common problems--they show you how to build image maps and create attractive forms, to cite two examples.
What's special about the book's approach is that it doesn't get side-tracked by the universe of detail that HTML 4 presents. Rather than choosing to ploddingly document the characteristics of one tag after another, Pfaffenberger and Gutzman explain their subject by describing how it is applied in practice. They explain, for example, how to arrange textual data so that people are more likely to read it.
The downside to this holistic approach is that HTML 4 Bible isn't the absolutely comprehensive HTML reference many readers will expect it to be. Books like that exist, and you may want to supplement HTML 4 Bible with one of them. But if you want a text that provides informed explanations of how to get the results you want with HTML, this book is for you. --David Wall (This text refers to the Paperback edition.)
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100% of what you need to know about HTML 4.01.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Not So Good,
By liuyanhi (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: HTML 4 Bible, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
Comparing to other books of the Bible family, this book is not satisfactory. It's short of enough figures that can give readers a vivid description of what these codes can make. And the real-world codes are also insufficient. The book is divided into too many chapters, which makes the whole book disordered. The 150-page Appendix is the only highlight of the book. Readers can easily query the usage of keywords. For sure, the book is not suitable to a beginner.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Horrible book,
By A Customer
This review is from: HTML 4 Bible, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
This book is very poorly organized. The author get so excited about CSS and the new coming XML that they neglect to explain the HTML fundamentals, syntax, and capabilities. The author has a tendency to jump from topic to topic without any warning or explanation. I would definetely not recommend this book to advanced programmers nor beginners, it's just too difficult to follow.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Found a number of new things and a few shortcuts as well.,
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This review is from: HTML 4 Bible, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
Teaching HTML for the past 5 years I have certainly found that there very few really in depth reference manuals, this book does have some really nice features, however at the same time there things that confused me about the book.
One thing I found odd was the 4 pages covering XML/XSL, after reading this I think the author could have left this out of the book and expanded and very good section on severs and server options.
Part III, development of pages with HTML is very good with fairly good coverage of each section. In the next edition they should bring some of the web editors more up to date. One section I found to very well written is Part IV or CSS, the authors seem to have everything covered here.
Part VII - cross browsers, deal with DHTML and JavaScript, I found this section to be okay but certainly more, much more information should have been included. One of the most impressive sections of the book is Appendices A through G, which is by far the best breakdown of attributes, CSS syntax, color and hex conversion I have ever seen.
The cd included is mostly made up of trial version of software and most of the software has newer version available, so this will also need fixing for the next release. Overall, since I don't need the eval software, I found that the book certainly serves a purpose and for those new to the HTML arena this book should be helpful.
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