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HTML and XHTML: The Definitive Guide (6th Edition)
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by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy
Sales Rank: 29401
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List Price: $49.99
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Paperback: 678 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 6 edition October 17, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596527322
ISBN-13: 978-0596527327
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.1 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
Product Review
In the most recent edition of this acclaimed HTML guide, Musciano and Kennedy look closely at every aspect of HTML and show how to use it wisely to create top-quality Web pages. The book is up-to-date, covering HTML 4, Netscape Navigator 4, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4, and the various extensions of each.
HTML: The Definitive Guide is aimed at beginners as well as those who have more practice in Web-page creation. The authors assume at least a basic knowledge of computers, including how to use a word processor or text editor and how to deal with files. They teach you that learning HTML is like learning any other language and that reading a book of rules can only take you so far. Readers begin writing what may be their first Web page just two pages into the book's second chapter. From there on, they provide a wide range of HTML coding to allow readers to learn from good examples. The book includes a handy "cheat sheet" of HTML codes for quick reference. --Elizabeth Lewis
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Midwest Book Review
HTML: The Definitive Guide covers every element of HTML in detail, explaining how each element works and how it interacts with other elements. With hundreds of examples, HTML: The Definitive Guide gives models for writing effective web pages and mastering advanced features like style sheets and frames. HTML: The Definitive Guide shows how to use style sheets and layers to control a document's appearance; create tables; use Netscape's frames to coordinate sets of documents, design and build interactive forms; insert images, sound fields, video, applets, and JavaScript programs; create documents that look good on a variety of browsers.
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Customer Reviews & Comments
This review is from: HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition (Paperback)
This is a fat book with a lot to like in it. The authors thoroughly explain HTML (and its recently-standardized twin XHTML) in its latest version (4.01). They also give a good explication of layout using the current standard (CSS2) of Cascading Style Sheets. They spend some time talking about embedded content such as pictures, Java applets and Javascript scripts. They look, too, at XML, which is the "meta-language" used to define XHTML. At the time they wrote this book (2002) the versions of the standardized languages they discuss were in the avant-garde. But many of the old ways of doing things are now obsolete, and older browser versions gone. Unfortunately, the authors constantly advert to these early browser versions and their quirks, and spend much time discussing outmoded and non-standard techniques that by their own admission should be avoided. (Let me emphasize that they whole-heartedly approve of the direction away from non-standard and layout-laden HTML and toward the CSS approach.) As it is, this book is quite usable whether you are writing old-fashioned HTML and loading your documents with physical layout instructions, or writing austere strict-version XHTML and restraining yourself to using style sheets to do layout. It has detailed essays on all the tags and a good chapter on CSS, and has useful appendices at the end for HTML grammer and tags, and for style sheet properties. It also has much that no longer applies. Perhaps the next edition will be less universally useful -- but also lighter.
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