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I've been seeing a lot of Eric Meyer lately...well, at least his books and other references. About a week and a half ago, I reviewed his book CSS Web Site Design: Hands-On Training (Peachpit Press). A few days later, during my review of Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition - New Riders), I noticed that he was credited as the technical editor of the book's first edition. When I picked up my copy of O'Reilly's "CSS: The Definitive Guide" and saw that Meyer was the author I thought, "This guy gets around".
I was interested in how Meyer treated the subject of CSS in two separate book series published so closely together (the Peachpit Press book came out November 9th). On the one hand, what could he say so differently about CSS in one book vs. the other? On the other hand, each series (Peachpit/lynda.com's Hands On Training vs. O'Reilly's The Definitive Guide) is very different from one another.
I'd mentioned in my previous review of "CSS Web Site Design", that it was a "classroom in a book", complete with multimedia presentations via CD. It is a highly structured text designed to be followed step-by-step. I suppose you could consider the "Definitive" book somewhat the same way. You can read it cover to cover expecting to build your skills as you go, however it has less of a "classroom" feel to it and it can also be used as a sheer reference work (no accompanying CD with video clips, either...of course a CS is not supposed to be part of the package).
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