About this title: Get ready to experience an eye-opening expos on CSS as youknow it today. You'll discover a fresh approach to codingCascading Style Sheets, making old hacks and workarounds adistant memory. In this book, you'll learn how to start taking fulladvantage of Internet Explorer 8 using the very latest CSStechniques -- whilst still catering for those nasty oldbrowsers. You'll unearth what's put the final nail in theHTML table-based layout coffin, and gain an understandingfrom two experts why CSS has a very bright future. Some of the valuable insights in this book include: how you can take full ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Sitepoint Pty Ltd
Date Published: 2008-10-01
ISBN-13:9780980455229ISBN:0980455227
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: SitePoint
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780980455229ISBN:0980455227
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"Remember moving over to CSS from table layout? It was learning web design from scratch, and caused many sleepless nights and refilled coffee pots. So having left tables behind years ago, this book explains how IE8 permits what I suppose you could call "table-like layout" to overcome the most frequently encountered problems with floats and positioning.
I can't see myself using the technique for any current projects, especially since CSS tables are not supported in IE7 or IE6. Making those two browsers happy is tricky enough without learning this new skill for IE8 and then having to code in workarounds, when you could have used regular CSS in the first place, which come to think of it still would have required workarounds (do you have a headache yet?)
Still, this book's lessons are good tools to have in your toolchest, and the subject is vital knowledge for web designers. Check it out for the grid-columns and grid-rows properties alone - how cool are they!"
"A brief but informative look at CSS display:table properties as it applies to layout. In a nutshell: the techniques are great, allowing you to implement some things that were easy to do with table-based layouts. The downside: although there's been support for these properties in the A-level browsers for a while, IE 6/7 don't support them.
In the end, you use the new techniques for 'good' browsers and supply backups for IE6/7. Meh.
The book ends with a short round-up of CSS positioning modules now being worked on by various W3C working groups.
"This is an exciting look at CSS table layout techniques, which, although not necessarily new, are now supported in all major browsers with the release of IE8; however, I finished the book feeling a mixture of geeky giddiness...and frustration. While these techniques have the potential to save loads of time designers may have previously spent wrestling with a mixture of floated and absolutely positioned elements, because these features are not supported in many older browsers (notably IE6/7), they're a less-than-ideal fix. For now.
I did appreciate the authors' call to designers to encourage site visitors to update their crusty old browsers, and an entire section of the book is devoted to numerous "gentle" techniques for doing so, ranging from the harsh (blocking users of old browsers) to the mild (employing separate style sheets while making visitors aware of upgrade options which will allow them to experience the site more fully). They make a good point; now that Microsoft has responded to the frustrated cries of web developers with the release of IE8, it's now up to us to promote its use, rather than silently catering to older browsers while muttering complaints under our breath.
The book concludes with an overview of a few specifications in the works for CSS3, including the Grid Positioning Module and the Template Layout Module, both of which sound like a developer's wet dream. I'm definitely eager to see how these new developments will impact the future of the web for both designers and site visitors alike.
(Take note that this book is only about 100 pages; I'm glad that I was able to find a copy at the library, rather than purchasing something that I was finished with in under an hour.)"
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