The Art & Science of CSS

Posted by tripwire45 on Aug 12, 2007 7:53 PM EDT
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This book by Adams, et al (sorry, too many names) is a puzzling mix of the elementary and the advanced. On the one hand, it starts the reader out with very basic style sheet formatting but tosses in flash replacement which the newbie wouldn't necessarily be aware of. I'm not complaining. It's just that "The Art & Science of CSS" doesn't quite present like so many other books on the subject.

Anyone familiar with Sitepoint in general knows that their books look and feel more like fine art books than technical manuals. Especially when reading a book about styling web sites, that's a good thing since it's all about making the site not necessarily more functionable but more attractive.



I remember one of the first books I ever reviewed was on CSS and I remarked that I was a bit surprised to see a book devoted to just this one aspect of website design. In fact, you can't really write a book just on CSS because styling interacts with so many other web technologies not the least of which are html and JavaScript. I suppose I could have said "dhtml" or "xhtml" but we are really talking about plain old vanilla html content tossed in the mix with other markup and programming languages. This book proves my point since both JavaScript and Flash technologies are mentioned early on in the text.

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