Everything You Know about CSS is Wrong! by Andrew, Rachel, Yank, Kevin [SitePoint, 2008] (Paperback) [Paperback]

by Andrew

Everything You Know about CSS is Wrong! by Andrew, Rachel, Yank, Kevin [SiteP...

Genres: Web, Reference, Nonfiction, Computers, Programming

Paperback

First published October 15, 2008

Reviews

[Ahmad Alfy · Rating 5 out of 5]

That's an awesome book that would definitely make me change the way I lay out sites! With the display:table property new potentials are opened. No more hacks, weird solutions, bugs ... It's the way we should adopt and we must push the community toward these techniques. This is huge for CSS like when people moved from HTML Tables to CSS

[Krishna Kumar · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have seldom seen a more deceptive title. The authors take one aspect of CSS, creating a grid design, and show how it can be done better using the latest CSS techniques. They have done this well, but it hardly warrants the bombastic title because they don’t cover “everything” you know about CSS.

I am a little surprised that this book needed to be published. It is a short book (116 pages) on a very narrow topic and could have been better served by publishing it as a series of blog posts. The author explain the topic well and provide code and screenshots, but the book format is so limited. The other problem is that the new CSS technique will not work with older browsers and hence it does serve more follow-up on browser compatibility and special cases.

The publishers should have chosen a more specific title, say “Next Generation CSS Table Layouts” which sounds attractive enough and more meaningful. They should have asked the authors to provide more content, say 200 pages worth to discuss backward compatibility and other nuances.

[Scott · Rating 4 out of 5]

A brief but informative look at CSS display:table properties as it applies to layout. In a nutshell: the techniques are great, allowing you to implement some things that were easy to do with table-based layouts. The downside: although there's been support for these properties in the A-level browsers for a while, IE 6/7 don't support them.

In the end, you use the new techniques for 'good' browsers and supply backups for IE6/7. Meh.

The book ends with a short round-up of CSS positioning modules now being worked on by various W3C working groups.

Good stuff, but it's value is slightly limited.

[Alessandro Pellizzari · Rating 2 out of 5]

Troppo focalizzato su una singola caratteristica dei CSS. Contando anche il prezzo (30 dollari) e il numero di pagine, mi sentirei di sconsigliare caldamente l'acquisto. Fortunatamente l'ho comprato approfittando delle offerte natalizie.

Tutto il libro copre un argomento che sarebbe stato coperto tranquillamente da un post in 3 o 4 puntate su un blog, e il titolo, per quanto accattivante, è totalmente fuorviante, in quanto tratta solo della differenza tra layout tramite float e position e layout tramite attributi table, table-cell e table-row.

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

Actually, everything you know about CSS might be alright. The title is deceptive. And so is the dated content. The author brings forward a grid design. Quite lame and dated even for the publishing date. And the author spends the rest of the book giving you a step by step tutorial on how to do that. Nothing more. Nothing less. With some wasted pages on the problems with Internet Explorer. A useless and uncreative book about using CSS.

[Raena]

Well, I work for SitePoint, so you should feel free to take what I think with a grain of salt. But I do think it's a great way to explain these new techniques and I think it makes the whole idea of CSS3 layout options much less scary

[Kealii Ballao · Rating 5 out of 5]

Its more like a propaganda book. CSS-Tables. combining the worst and the best of the web to make something that, I guess is logical.

[Guilherme · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good primer on CSS tables and what it can do for CSS layouts. Very easy and short read, but worth it.

[Ben Rand]

fortunately, i don't know all that much about css. very focused, short book. ok, so i'm late to the party (the book's 3 years old). worth the read while on a car trip with nothing else to do.