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Summary: Cascading Style Sheets 2.0 Programmer's Reference
Review: Serious CSS developing without this book? Not a good idea...This book is the natural sequel to "Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide" and lists the CSS2 properties and values, combined with important information to each feature. As each Eric Meyer book, it is clear, precise and competent.
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Summary: Wonderful pocket reference (not quite pocketsized though)
Review: Simple and sweet - good refence, easy lookup structure, fast answers. Anyone dealing with CSS should have this close by.
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Summary: Useful Information, But Definitely Not For Beginners
Review: Since I've gotten this book, I've used it constantly as a reference for what I'll need within my detailed style sheets for my websites. It is extremely useful, but I would caution against beginning to intermediate level people using this book in high hopes of it showing how to use CSS effectively. The book clearly assumes that you have a proper understanding of CSS structure (only touching on it briefly within one section) and knowledge of what it requires within the context of HTML to make it work. None of this is clearly demonstrated. It is a resource akin to a dictionary when you're not sure of something's usage or meaning. In that sense, it is excellent. I would have liked, however, if there was some section for anticipated things within the progress of CSS (moving toward version 3.0 and any addendum aspects such as RUBY within the 2.0 scheme), so that developers and designers alike can 'think forward' for future sites and how they would be implemented.
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Summary: It's what it says it is
Review: The book calls itself "The Most Authoritative Quick Reference for Programmers"...it is. I've been lucky enough to be writing CSS since its beginnings and this book is right now the most current and definitive resource I can find for CSS. Echoing other comments, this is not for beginners. Get Jason Teague's DHTML/CSS Visual Quickstart book if you need a beginner's book. This book, in hand with Bradsoft's TopStyle Pro 2.5+ on your desktop, and you'll be doing what the book says: *programming* with CSS. If you're designing web application GUIs, you need this book. It's a cinch buy with Eric Meyer's name as the author. This volume also bookends quite nicely with the JavaScript Bible by Danny Goodman. One negative note: the organization of this book leaves a little bit to be desired...the black printed "tab" sections are not intuitive. I have purchased stick-on tabs to mark specific sections for quick location. The opinions expressed above are personal and do not represent Mr. Sobkoviak's employers or clients.
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Summary: A Book - about sums it up......
Review: The book is for the really, really just starting beginner. I bought this book thinking that it may answer some of my questions concerning CSS. Instead, it just confirmed everything I already knew. The book was nothing from cover to cover. It not for the compatibility charts in the back the book would be totally worthless (still going to return it though). If I could give this book a negative rating, I would!
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Summary: CSS is rocket science
Review: The initial chapters of this book are more difficult to understand than the CSS2 standard, and make CSS seem like rocket science.
They assume you have the vocabulary of a member of the team that wrote the CSS2 standard. I know it is difficult sometimes for a writer to imagine himself as a reader of the book, but this book doesn't even try.
Skip the initial chapters and go right to the reference.
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Summary: Good for reference
Review: This book is by no means an easy read and I would recommend it for reference only. In his writing, a lot of terms are not clearly explained (if at all) and I got lost many times (despite being very familiar with CSS). If you are looking to learn CSS or just have a guide book, go elsewhere. As a reference book, this would be a good buy.
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Summary: Great and Thorough Reference- say it out loud.... REFERENCE
Review: This is a reference book.
It says that in the title but some of the negative reviews on this book seem to have overlooked that. It is NOT a turorial. It is NOT going to be a magic book to give you all your ideas so you don't have to think and have good design skills. What it is...
A really good, thorough, reference book on CSS2. This guy knows his stuff and presents it clearly and without any clutter. It is laid out so you can easily find every element, property, and atribute there is. Sure you could go to the World Wide Web Consortium's web site for the info, but when you're in the middle of coding - a good REFERENCE book is still tops for getting info fast. And in my opinion, the layout of the book makes more sense than the w3's web site (though it is valuable too). To those just starting with CSS-
This book may be hard to grasp at first. Buy it anyway. Find a few web sites to get the basics down because this will be the book you'll want to have after your first week, when what you need is a reference and not a dumbed down overworded tutorial with examples that don't fit your application anyway.
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Summary: A truly complete reference of CSS.
Review: This is a wonderfully organized reference of CSS. It covers every aspect of CSS. There are both short and clear explanations and examples for every feature, so even if you not familiar with the specific feature about which you are reading, The feature details would tell you in short: what it does, how it does it, and where, when and how you can and should use it.
The indexs of the book would direct you to the feature you are looking for in a few seconds at most !
As I already said, it is a great reference and now an indespensible tool for my web development work.
I recommend it to anyone with even a little experience in CSS, that takes web development seriously.
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Summary: Good reference, right level of examples
Review: This is good material. It is great as a reference and it escapes the danger of being as dry as a W3C specification. The examples are present and they are helpful enough to help digest the content. I used it as more than a reference but I can see that people may have a problem with it. Still, great for what it is.
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