Having spare time has unexpected consequences. Such as plowing through an entire book in one sitting. Last night I finally picked up my copy of Everything you know about CSS is wrong. A daunting title indeed, but the book is just over 100 pages, so it’s a quick read. And what you learn is basically that there’s a thing called CSS tables, which allows you to layout web-pages in wonderful ways.
The funny thing is that there’s nothing new about CSS tables. I don’t know why I haven’t encountered them before, because they work fine in most browsers. Probably because the idea of tables and layout leaves a taste of sick in the back of most peoples mouth? This book proves me wrong, it explains with good examples how the CSS tables properties work, how they compare to the old ways of positioning and floating, and why it’s the next big thing.
The reason why the authors reckon it’ll be huge is the forthcoming release of IE8, which will be the first IE to support CSS tables. Obviously it’ll take some time before IE6 and 7 are gone, but that’s no reason not to play with our new developer toys!
The book finishes off by looking into the future (CSS3), showing examples of what CSS will look like when we get to use the Template Layout Module (formerly Advanced Layout Module), Grid Positioning Module and the Multi-column Layout module. The way of writing CSS using these differs radically from the usual floats and positioning, and using CSS tables seems like a good in between step to me. So if you’re serious about your CSS and want to avoid skill rot this book is an easy first step onwards.
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OK. I just bought it purely on your recommendation. However, I just thought that, why did I, I could’ve bought it from your if you were willing to sell it. Wouldn’t have to pay any shipment if I could’ve picked it up in Oslo.
But then again, you may want to sit on it.
Cool. You should be happy with the book. It’s a keeper for me, also, it wouldn’t have saved you any shipping as at moment I live in Australia, not Norway