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The Web Programmer's Desk Reference
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The Web Programmer's Desk Reference |
Author: Lazaro Issi Cohen
Published: 2004-09-05 |
List price: $59.95
Our price: $43.76
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Nice resource book
Trying to create, maintain or understand how a web site works requires having knowledge of many different technologies. This book provides a good overview of the core web technologies (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) and a reference of all elements of these languages. For each element, you will find
- a description
- its syntax
- a practical example
- compatibility with different Explorer and Netscape browser
This makes more than 1100 pages that are easy to consult as a single source for web site programming.
 Excellent Reference
I bought the book 3 years ago and it is the most used book in my library. Excellent reference on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript all cross-referenced, defined, and taged for browser compatibility. Anyone who gets into manual coding should find this an invaluable must-have addition to their library. I can't even begin to think of how much on-line search time this book has saved me when trying to track down the syntax for a rarely used item.
Take the book title to heart -- this is really a reference book, not a comprehensive tutorial on web programming.
Well done
The book arrived in a short amount of time and packed well and in good shape. I'm sure the contents must be good as our son-in-law seems to really use it.
Barbara
Very Useful Desk Reference
The Web Programmer's Desk Reference is like a dictionary for a web programmer. Whenever I need to know what attributes an HTML tag has and how those attributes can be set I turn to it. Same for setting selectors in style sheets or using Javascript functions.
 good reference, but seems abandoned by authors
Good reference with advanced CSS and Javascript coverage. HTML coverage is good as well, but less thorough on cross platform support details. Also the HTML is HTML and not XHTML which you would probably be using with the latest and greatest CSS and Javascript.
There seems to be no maintained errata for the book which has a pretty bad error on page 7. Contextual selectors like:
h1 em ul { color: red; }
apply to an h1 tag that contains an em tag that contains a ul tag.
And not what the book states which is that it is equivalent to:
h1 { color: red; }
em { color: red; }
ul { color: red; }
The code equivalent to the three separate rules is not a contextual select, but just three separate rules that can be written as:
h1, em, ul { color: red; }
Despite this error early on in the book, I find it overall a useful reference.
The author's unmaintained website is at:
http://deskref.softsmartinc.com
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