Tag Archives: CSS

Review of CSS Cookbook

CSS Cookbook Christopher Schmitt O’Reilly, 2004 This has become my new favorite book on CSS. For quite some time, the only way to learn to use CSS in website design was search the web for references, keep CSS: The Definitive Guide by your side, and experiment. The problem is that the interactions with the different… Read More »

Review of XML in a Nutshell

XML in a Nutshell Elliotte Rusty Harold and W. Scott Means O’Reilly, 2001 This is a good overview of XML-based technologies as of 2001. If you are looking for a deep understanding of the uses of XML and related technologies, this is not the right book for you. However, if you are looking for a… Read More »

SVG and CSS

In most of the SVG I’ve seen people either prefer to use the style attribute or set the individual style attributes. I don’t see much use of CSS classes and I wonder why. Most of the criticisms I’ve seen of the use of CSS fall into four categories: It’s not XML. It’s too verbose to… Read More »