- Paperback: 672 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 5 edition (29 Aug 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 059600382X
- ISBN-13: 978-0596003821
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 17.8 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 507,431 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Major Kearny, Book News, Jan 2003
Another essential reference...especially recommended to those wanting to make the transition to XHTML.
PC Plus, Feb 2003
This is an important, and very useful reference work. If you are working with any web application, you'll need this on your desk.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A reference rather than a tutorial,
This review is from: HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide (HTML & XHTML: Definitive Guide) (Paperback)
If you need a handy HTML or XHTML reference, then this is the book for you. If you are a complete novice, then you need to read another book, such as 'Learning Web Design' by Jennifer Niederst (yet another O'Reilly book) first.Did I say this was just a reference? Well, this is untrue. If you have some experience this book cuts nicely through the jargon and dogma and explains how an HTML document is structured, and then describes in detail all the elements (tags) in the structure. The book is organised in such a way that the HTML Quick Reference at the back of the book is cross-referenced to the main text down to the exact page (as is the CSS Quick Reference). When it comes to the issues about standards and deprecated attributes and tags in the HTML 4.01 standard, Musciano and Kennedy are pragmatic and practical, rather than treating this as some form of religious debate. They are realistic enough to suggest that you should adhere to the standards wherever possible, but be prepared to make concessions where otherwise you would not be able to achieve what you want. There is also some good discussion on browser take up of CSS 1 and CSS 2.1. The only beef I have is that in Chapter 6, Links and Webs, the explanations of URLs and of TCP/IP port numbers are not as good as they could be. It seems the writers have sacrificed clarity for brevity. Be that as it may, I have found this book invaluable and use it on a daily basis.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Bible for (real) web designers,
By Anne Greenacre (Edinburgh, Lothian United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide (HTML & XHTML: Definitive Guide) (Paperback)
I was completely new to HTML, XHTML and WYSIWYG editors, and this book was recommended to me as the best place to start. I took it on holiday to Greece - and read it from cover to cover in a week, while everyone else was on the beach! - and it gave me a superb grounding on which to build a web design career. So, read it now, and read it first.
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4.2 out of 5 stars (25 customer reviews) 52 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
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Good, but time for a new edition,
By James R. Mccall - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide (HTML & XHTML: Definitive Guide) (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. 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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This is the beginners book for learning HTML,
By Golden Lion "Reader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide (HTML & XHTML: Definitive Guide) (Paperback)
This is the beginners book for learning HTML. As a professional Web developer, I appreciate finding a book, with impact and difference, in my career; this is one of those books. Each chapter is filled with valuable technical content. The chapter information provides simple and understandable samples. Even if you know alittle about HTML and have been programming in html, its not a bad reference. For those without HTML programming experiece, you'll be programming in no time at all. HTML editors are great, but sometimes you just need to know the HTML language, to be an effective programmer. You'll find this book very useful. I don't believe any understand of HTML is necessary before purchasing this book. A novice can easily pickup the book, read the chapters, and start programming. I've use the bookly constantly to look html properties and assist in my daily programming. Occassionally, I find a tip or trick and will help me overcome a programming barrier. This is an excellent book for indepth study of HTML.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
The values of each attribute shoud be added.,
By Y. Jiang - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide (HTML & XHTML: Definitive Guide) (Paperback)
The book has a very completed list of all of the tags and their attributes. However, no possible values for the attributes are listed. For people to learn HTML or to use this book as a reference book, this information is very important.
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