HTML Pocket Reference

By?Jennifer Niederst Robbins
First Edition December 1999 
Pages: 95 (More details)
(Average of 4 Customer Reviews)

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This pocket reference by Jennifer Niederst, author of the bestselling Web Design in a Nutshell, delivers a concise guide to every HTML tag. YouUll find detailed information on each tag's attributes, as well as browser support information. This is likely to be the most dog-eared book on every web professional's desk.
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Book details

Title: HTML Pocket Reference
First Edition: December 1999
ISBN 10: 1-56592-579-3
ISBN 13: 9781565925793
Pages: 95
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 4 Reviews)

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HTML Pocket Reference Review,  December 12 2001
Submitted by Christopher gullick   [Respond | View]

I'd been playing around designing web site's using programs such as Dreamweaver for a while now and over that time I have only learn't a bit of coding and didn't know what each tag was for, but recently I started my college course and part of the course is to learn HTML 4. They gave me a computer print out of different tags but only the basic tags as I had seen many more tags in my time looking at coding.

So one evening on the way back from college I past a book store and decided to go in and have a look at the HTML books that were on offer and all I could see was really thick text books costing about £25 (about $37.50 US). Then I saw a little book tucked away in between the text books, I read the binding and it said HTML Pocket Reference. Interested I had a quick look through the book and to my surprise I found:

• A complete list of tags
  
  
• Handy descriptions telling you what the different tags did
  
  
• Tag structures showing how tags go together and in what order
  
  
• A complete character entity chart with all the codes for the characters
• and a complete hexadecimal conversion chart
  
  

I was excited I had finally found the book I was looking for and best of all it was very well priced at only £6.95 ($9.95 US $14.95 CAN), so I took it to the counter and purchased it and I have not been disappointed it has helped me no end with my web design and I feel very confident that I can remember the tags and know that I can refresh my memory very quickly with this excellent reference guide.

I'm now planning on buying the series of pocket reference's as and when i'm learning a new aspect of web design and the web site as been a big help also

Thank You O'Reilly.


HTML Pocket Reference Review,  August 08 2001
Submitted by Robert Hurd   [Respond | View]

This is an invaluable resource for Web site developers. This is a must have book next to your computer. You will use this book so often that the pages will probably start falling out of the book! A lot of large (500 + paged) books on HTML will contain this same information, but this information is in a large hard to carry around book. Also, this specific information is a pain in the ass to search for in a large book everytime you need to refresh yourself on a certain tag and it's browser compatibility. This book is only 92 pages, contains all the tags in HTML 4.0 and is so small it will fit in your shirt or back pocket.

It's impossible for every Web site designer out there to have access to all the browsers that will be accessing their sites. I personally have access to Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. But, I don't have access to the WebTv or Opera browsers. So for most designers that are like me and only have access to about half of the browsers used on the Web today, need reference material that will help us to choose the best HTML tags for our sites that will allow our sites to be viewable and useable in all the main browsers used on the Web today. That's the purpose of this pocket book. It shows you what tags Netscape Navigator 2,3,4 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 2,3,4,5, WebTV and Opera 3 support.

Here's an example of what I mean:

I thought about the days a few years back when I was developing Java applets and I wondered to myself, if I wanted to include a Java applet today in one of my

Web sites, is the

<applet>

tag supported in the main four browsers that I have previously mentioned. To my shock, it isn't. The applet tag will not work in WebTV or Opera. So I thought to

myself.... well the

<object>

tag should work in all these browsers. But again, I was wrong. This tag also will not work in WebTV or Opera. But with the information provided in this book I was informed about the only tag that would work in all four of these browsers. It turns out that the:

<embed>

tag is the only tag that is supported in all four of these browsers. So if I decided I wanted to include a Java applet in one of my Web sites today, I would now use the "embed" tag. Without this book in my possession, I would of used the "applet" or "object" tag just assuming to myself that those tags would of been supported by the WebTV and Opera browsers, but that would of been a big mistake on my behalf. My Java applet would not of been viewable in those two Web browsers. Because of this book I was shown the correct tag to use that would allow my applet to be viewed in all the main browsers. This example alone proved to me that this book is worth having next to your computer at all times. I'm confident that every Web site designer out there who purchases this book will have the same beneficial experience with this book as I did that will justify the purchasing of it.


HTML Pocket Reference Review,  September 11 2000
Submitted by Mark Bazin   [Respond | View]

This is by far one of the most useful books a web-designer can own. It makes the process of writing HTML much easier through its excellent documentation of every possible tag. Thanks O'Reilly!!

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Media reviews

"[Consumers] will find the fine 'pocket references' produced by O'Reilly to be compact and affordable."
-- James Cox, The Computer Shelf: Midwest Book Review

"This is an invaluable resource for Web site developers. This is a must have book next to your computer. You will use this book so often that the pages will probably start falling out of the book! A lot of large (500 + paged) books on HTML will contain this same information, but this information is in a large hard to carry around book. Also, this specific information is a pain in the ass to search for in a large book every time you need to refresh yourself on a certain tag and it's browser compatibility. This book is only 92 pages, contains all the tags in HTML 4.0 and is so small it will fit in your shirt or back pocket. Rating 10 out of 10." -Raven, ravenmatrix.com, June 2001

"There comes a point when most people realize that HTML is just not that difficult. When that time comes, it seems impractical to keep all of those bulky books immediately at hand just to refresh your memory about some attribute of the exact syntax of a tag. For those times, it is much more useful to have a concise guide that tells you only what you need to know. HTML Pocket Reference is that guide." -- E. V. Bell II, Ed's Internet Book Review

"especially useful is HTML Pocket Reference, organized by most-used codes, with explanations of when and how each is used. And again, while mostly for professional web designers, it's tremendously useful for beginners." -Bruce W. Marcus, The Marcus Newsletter, July 2001

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