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Summary: A lot of information packed in a little book...
Review: "HTML Pocket Reference" is great for those of us who do not wish to connect to every browser's/standard's web sites to see what's compatible with what. Also, this book literally fits in your pocket!The information is well organized and emphasizes which browser/standard (Netscape 2/3/4, MSIE 2/3/4/5, HTML 4, WebTV, and Opera) each tag is compatible with. Standard attributes, and browser/standard specific attributes (which are indicated as such), are defined with a short but clear description of its purpose. This book is not limited to just HTML tags, it also has a basic reference of how certain attributes are structured, a list of special characters with their &#; equivalent as well as the &yyy; name if one exists - decimal to Hex conversion chart for values from 0 (00) to 255 (FF) - chart with color names, RGB values, hex color values, and the nearest web-safe hex color values
If I went back in time to decide whether or not I should order "HTML Pocket Reference", I would order it without hesitation.
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Summary: A lot of information packed in a little book...
Review: "HTML Pocket Reference" is great for those of us who do not wish to connect to every browser's/standard's web sites to see what's compatible with what. Also, this book literally fits in your pocket! The information is well organized and emphasizes which browser/standard (Netscape 2/3/4, MSIE 2/3/4/5, HTML 4, WebTV, and Opera) each tag is compatible with. Standard attributes, and browser/standard specific attributes (which are indicated as such), are defined with a short but clear description of its purpose. This book is not limited to just HTML tags, it also has a basic reference of how certain attributes are structured, a list of special characters with their &#; equivalent as well as the &yyy; name if one exists - decimal to Hex conversion chart for values from 0 (00) to 255 (FF) - chart with color names, RGB values, hex color values, and the nearest web-safe hex color values
If I went back in time to decide whether or not I should order "HTML Pocket Reference", I would order it without hesitation.
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Summary: indispensible
Review: A pocket guide to HTML that covers HTML 4.0. This is about the most useful book, in terms of daily use, that you could ever own on HTML. I give it 4 stars because of two problems: - The tags are ordered alphabetically, which is good. But it would have been better if tags had a "related tags" item that listed tags that are relevant to the given tag. For example, <TABLE></TABLE> makes no mention of <TR></TR> and <TD></TD>... I realise that this is a reference and not a textbook, but it would add to the usefulness of this book immensely. - Insufficient (close to none) information on styles. It would help a lot to make this reference self-contained, if each with each tag, there was a very brief description of the style components that control its look. The character entity table is very useful, if incomplete. The colour chart is a nice and useful addition. All in all, this is a VERY useful book. Get it and stop carrying around those heavy HTML tomes... My criticism is just meant for improving the next edition... (hint, hint, ... )
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Summary: Second Edition is not an Improvement over the First
Review: After being disappointed with the 1st edition of this book, I was looking forward to the 2nd edition, which I expected to be much improved. The new edition does contain improvements in some areas, but also has regressed in others. For example, the book is updated for IE 6, but is missing information on which tags are supported in IE 5. New information on character entities was added, but all information on color names was removed. Tags missing from the 1st edition were added, but now the <img> tag is missing. Most disappointing is the fact that most of the errata and suggestions sent to O'Reilly on the 1st edition were ignored when creating the 2nd edition. The end result is that the 2nd edition is no more helpful than the 1st. The book contains most of the information that experienced web designers need to write HTML, but you will need a more comprehensive book handy to look up information that is missing or inaccurate. If the book were updated according to the suggestions on the O'Reilly site and many examples added, it would be far more useful on its own.
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Summary: <Nice Pocket Reference >
Review: Good one for a quick reference to all HTML tags.GOod for beginners as well as experienced HTML programmers.
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Summary: so-so (buggy)
Review: I am generally a fan of Pocket References. But this one seems poorly debugged. One example is claiming "align" is deprecated for <td>. Turns out, this bug has made it onto the Errata page for the book
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/htmlpr2/errata/ ,
but only under "Unconfirmed error reports and comments from readers." If you write a buggy book, at least do the work to confirm bugs and fix them in new printings!
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Summary: You'll use this book to death.
Review: I bought this book on impulse because, for the price, even if it stunk, I wouldn't be out much. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I use this book frequently when I develop Web pages. It's easy to find things in this book and the descriptions are clear. I only wish the book covered cascading style sheets, too.
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Summary: So Perfectly Packed with Everything I Bought Two!!
Review: I bought this pocket reference about a year ago and since found it indespensible. From over use (and I mean over use), the binding started to fall apart (around the <table> page), so I ordered another. Now I have one at home and one at work. Do yourself a favor and buy it now, it's so cheap anyway and SO handy.
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Summary: So Perfectly Packed with Everything I Bought Two!!
Review: I bought this pocket reference about a year ago and since found it indespensible. From over use (and I mean over use), the binding started to fall apart (around the page), so I ordered another. Now I have one at home and one at work. Do yourself a favor and buy it now, it's so cheap anyway and SO handy.
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Summary: Great Quick Reference
Review: I own several of these Pocket Reference books and I find them invaluable. They are concise and give me just the information I need in a quick no frills manner. I keep them handy when I'm coding pages so I don't waste alot of time looking something up I just need a refresher on.
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