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Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong!

About the Authors

Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew is a director of web-solutions provider edgeofmyseat.com. Rachel takes a common sense, real-world approach to web standards, with her writing and teaching being based on the experiences she has in her own company every day. Rachel has also authored The CSS Anthology and HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS, 2nd Edition.

Kevin Yank

Kevin Yank is a world-renowned leader in web development. When not writing best sellers, Kevin is the Technical Director of sitepoint.com and editor of the popular SitePoint Tech Times newsletter. Kevin has also authored Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL, and Simply JavaScript.

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By Rachel Andrew & Kevin Yank

Product Information

Features

Published: October 2008

7"x9" format
Entire contents of book in full color throughout!
Covers all modern browsers
Explains cutting-edge but usable CSS3 techniques

Expert Reviews

Making me think differently about CSS tables is Rachel's aim in Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong! As we'll see, she does a damn fine job.

Andy Clarke forabeautifulweb.com

The sooner that IE8 can be adopted, the better, and these techniques can start to get a proper working out. Who knows, there may be a whole new raft of tricks that will arise as a result of these CSS table layout properties...

Ian Lloyd accessify.com

Customer Reviews

Live, unmoderated reviews from our customers, typos and all.

"Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong" is a very misleading title. The main content of the book deals with CSS-based tables, which is not fully implemented except in a few modern browsers (and will only work under certain conditions). We have to deal with older browsers (like IE6) for a while longer, so there is no need to even try to implement CSS-based tables (professionally) at this point.

Had the title been something like "Use CSS-based Tables in Your Design" I would have bought the book for research and knowledge. I know a lot about CSS and nothing changed by reading this book. My problem is not with the authors; I have great respect for both Rachel and Kevin, but this one is a bit under par.

Over the years I have bought a lot of books from Sitepoint; this one is the first book I regret buying.