When I recieved this book it was extremely thin(about 100 pages), I did not worry to much thinking that its a sitepoint book and that the content must be pretty good.
The book is essentially about the fact that Internet Explorer 8 supports the Display:table property and how this is some sort of holy grail improvement that will solve all problems that the universe can throw at us.
It dedicates about 30-40 pages of the book to this. The start of the book is about browser history and the remainder is about CSS3…why
I cannot stress how useless this book is.
Everything you know about css is NOT wrong, it actually this book thats wrong.
Shame on you sitepoint for creating this book as a simple money making exercise on the back off other good sitepoint books.
Well, i must say, when I read your title it certainly did sound dubious! However I haven’t read the book in order to comment, but I’m not sure that I even want to now!
The book just covers the simple Table property that now IE8 has also adopted. Its a simple concept and did not require a full book to explain it. In fact it used about a quarter of the book to explain it.
In reality you still would not use it because untill IE7 and IE6 users dramatically drop, its not feasable. I am not going to make it work in IE8 and then make it only partially pretty for the other browsers. My clients want their sites to look the same(or almost the same) in IE6 and IE7, end of story.
It also is not perfect, the table property has issues when using position:absolute/relative so you have to use hacks to get around it.
Look at the reviews this book has got not only on forums but on Amazon aswell.
I am contacting sitepoint this week and ask whether they would consider a refund.
