Get ready to experience an eye-opening expos on CSS as you know it today. You'll discover a fresh approach to coding Cascading Style Sheets, making old hacks and workarounds a distant memory.
In this book, you'll learn how to start taking full advantage of Internet Explorer 8 using the very latest CSS techniques -- whilst still catering for those nasty old browsers. You'll unearth what's put the final nail in the HTML table-based layout coffin, and gain an understanding from two experts why CSS has a very bright future.
Some of the valuable insights in this book include:
CSS was conceived in an age when web site design was simple; its creators never anticipated the level of intricacy required in the designs that it would be asked to deliver today. Clever designers figured out ways to make CSS do what they needed, but using techniques so convoluted that it became unpredictable and difficult to master. CSS just became too hard ...
The good news is, that's all about to change, and this book will show you how!
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Posted February 5, 2009
Are you a web designer and/or developer who needs to work with CSS layouts? If you are, then this book is for you! Authors Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank, have done an outstanding job of writing a book that takes stock of the current best practices methods that are being considered for CSS layout.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Andrew and Yank, begin by exploring the current problems with CSS layout techniques, as well as the mismatch between what designers want and what CSS provides. Next, the authors explain the current techniques that use absolute positioning and floated elements, and the complexity involved in getting them to work reliably. Then, they test the limits of what CSS tables can do, explore the edge cases, and deliver concrete solutions. They continue by showing you how that CSS table-based layouts are ready for prime time by providing practical solutions for supporting IE6 and 7. Finally, the authors take a look at three CSS3 modules for layout control: the multi-column layout module, the grid-positioning module, and the template layout module.<BR/><BR/><BR/>This most excellent book takes a good look at what's just around the corner with Internet Explorer 8. More importantly, this book has been written to inspire debate and experimentation in a time of change and development.
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Overview
Get ready to experience an eye-opening expos on CSS as you know it today. You'll discover a fresh approach to coding Cascading Style Sheets, making old hacks and workarounds a distant memory.
In this book, you'll learn how to start taking full advantage of Internet Explorer 8 using the very latest CSS techniques -- whilst still catering for those nasty old browsers. You'll unearth what's put the final nail in the HTML table-based layout coffin,...