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By?Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy
Sixth Edition October 2006
Pages: 678 (More details)
(Average of 2 Customer Reviews)
Put everthing you need to know about HTML and XHTML at your fingertips. For nearly a decade, hundreds of thousands of web developers have turned to HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide to master standards-based web development. Truly a definitive guide, the book combines a unique balance of tutorial material with a comprehensive reference that even the most experienced web professionals keep close at hand. From basic syntax and semantics to guidelines aimed at helping you develop your own distinctive style, this classic is all you need to become fluent in the language of web design.
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--Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine
"When they say 'definitive' they're not kidding."
--Linda Roeder, About.com
Put everthing you need to know about HTML & XHTML at your fingertips. For nearly a decade, hundreds of thousands of web developers have turned to HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide to master standards-based web development. Truly a definitive guide, the book combines a unique balance of tutorial material with a comprehensive reference that even the most experienced web professionals keep close at hand. From basic syntax and semantics to guidelines aimed at helping you develop your own distinctive style, this classic is all you need to become fluent in the language of web design.
The new sixth edition guides you through every element of HTML and XHTML in detail, explaining how each element works and how it interacts with other elements. You'll also find detailed discussions of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), which is intricately related to web page development. The most all-inclusive, up-to-date book on these languages available, this edition covers HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, and CSS2, with a preview of the upcoming XHTML2 and CSS3. Other topics include the newer initiatives in XHTML (XForms, XFrames, and modularization) and the essentials of XML for advanced readers. You'll learn how to:
- Use style sheets to control your document's appearance
- Work with programmatically generated HTML
- Create tables, both simple and complex
- Use frames to coordinate sets of documents
- Design and build interactive forms and dynamic documents
- Insert images, sound files, video, Java applets, and JavaScript programs
- Create documents that look good on a variety of browsers
The authors apply a natural learning approach that uses straightforward language and plenty of examples. Throughout the book, they offer suggestions for style and composition to help you decide how to best use HTML and XHTML to accomplish a variety of tasks. You'll learn what works and what doesn't, and what makes sense to those who view your web pages and what might be confusing. Written for anyone who wants to learn the language of the Web--from casual users to the full-time design professionals--this is the single most important book on HTML and XHTML you can own.
Bill Kennedy is chief technical officer of MobileRobots, Inc. When not hacking new HTML pages or writing about them, "Dr. Bill" (Ph.D. in biophysics from Loyola University of Chicago) is out promoting the company's line of mobile, autonomous robots that can be used for artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic research, and education.
Chuck Musciano began his career as a compiler writer and crafter of tools at Harris Corporations' Advanced Technology Group and is now a manager of Unix Systems in Harris' Corporate Data Center.
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Book details
Title:
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide
Sixth Edition: October 2006
ISBN 10: 0-596-52732-2
ISBN 13: 9780596527327
Pages: 678
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 2 Reviews)
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Great reference book
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2007-04-01 11:36:57
Ferio
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I think it is the most complete reference book on (X)HTML ever, explaining every tag and extension this language has. The only (little) disappointment I had with it is that it doesn't teach good and strong standards behaviour in some points, but apart from that, it's an essential reference book.
If you use it as a complement to Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML (https://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hfhtmlcss/) , you'll get the whole and complete standards-based XHTML experience.
Excellent text for teaching HTML
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2007-02-01 09:06:46
Pam Kerensky, Berklee College of Music
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I used O'Reilly books for years professionally, but have also found this particular text wonderful to use for my beginning web design course. I have been using it since the 4th edition. It gives a good introduction to the history behind the language, standards, etc. and gives the students a useful reference to use above and beyond the course requirements. Many books I reviewed were either too focused on CSS or XHTML in the very beginning, which I have found is difficult for beginners, or were strictly project focused, which meant only really showing one way of doing things. This text allows me to focus on the basics, yet also offers the opportunity to go back and look at other options as we advance. Students may find it a bit dry in the beginning, but once they begin to use it, they find it invaluable and tell me that they continue to use the book even after the course has ended, while the "hands-on project" books sit on the shelf! The pull-out reference in the back is very also very handy.
Media reviews
"The writing is friendly, and yet the material is covered quickly...As a former instructor of web design at the University of the West Indies School of Continuing Studies, I can see this book as a great book for an instructor lead curriculum. I can also see this book as worthwhile in the hands of a motivated beginner. In all, I have to give HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide (6th Edition) an 8 out of 10 on the KnowProSE.com scale. The book is approachable, thorough, and can be useful well beyond learning the meat of HTML and XHTML. "
-- Taran Rampersad, KnowProSE.com
"Perhaps the best aspect of the book is the range of users who can benefit from it. Absolute beginners will find plenty to learn from and experiment with, while seasoned web designers will find the book very handy to grab for quick reference and verification of things they are trying for the first time, or that just plain don't behave properly."
-- John R. Clark, TCM Reviews
"Ever wondered what a particular obscure tag or attribute that someone used in their web page was intended to do? This book will provide the answer. Along with those tags and attributes that form part of the current (X)HTML standards this book also includes info on almost every tag and attribute that has ever been recognised by any of the commonly used web browsers."
-- Stephen Chapman, Felgall.com
"The book is approachable, thorough, and can be useful well beyond learning the meat of HTML and XHTML. "
--Taran Rampersad, KnowProSE.com
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