Reviews for Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong!

1. Absolute waste of money.

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, February 12th, 2010

   When I recieved this book it was extremely thin(about 100 pages), I did not worry to much thinking that its a sitepoint book and that the content must be pretty good.
   
   The book is essentially about the fact that Internet Explorer 8 supports the Display:table property and how this is some sort of holy grail improvement that will solve all problems that the universe can throw at us.
   It dedicates about 30-40 pages of the book to this. The start of the book is about browser history and the remainder is about CSS3....why
   
   I cannot stress how useless this book is.
   
   Everything you know about css is NOT wrong, it is actually THIS book thats WRONG.
   
   Shame on you sitepoint for creating this book as a simple money making exercise on the back off other good sitepoint books.

2. Waste of time and more importantly money!

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, December 12th, 2009

   What this book fails to mention from the outset is although many web designers and developers have been aware of 'CSS Tables' for some time they are in fact useless as older but irritatingly, still popular browsers do not support them. Unless you want to double up on your work load by writing different CSS styles for different browsers then unfortunately this book offers no information of ANY USE that you cannot find online in seconds. A real swizz at this price.

3. Why did they bother?

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, October 12th, 2009

   Tables are not evil. Indeed, no HTML element can be considered evil, unless the HTML 5 standard plans to introduce a <666> tag that I'm not aware of (Who knows, possibly a microformat?). So to describe tables as evil is just silly. Tables are great, if you want to present tabular data. They aren't great if you want to use them for layout though. But we all knew that already. Every other CSS book I have read (and the Lord knows its been far too many) has had a "coming attractions" section, where we all have a dribble over what the future will hold. This (rather small) book is essentially one big dribble, that assumes you haven't read any of the other sitepoint books about CSS. CSS tables. Wow! Jolly nice. Can't wait! I just wish the punters would get on board and update to IE8. Until then, this is all just a rather small pipe dream.

4. Look beyond the title

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, February 12st, 2009

   I read the title and I was intrigued..."Everything I know about CSS is wrong?!" This cannot be! I've read nearly all(obviously not all but just the good ones) the books and have been designing sites...oohh for nearly 10 years now..I be damned if its all wrong.
   
   The title itself puts you in an awkward position, I read the book thinking, "Ok, so impress me." Take the title for what it is, its just a statement, an opinion, one to get you interested and start a debate. And as you read on its confirmed in the Preface.
   
   The book then opens you up to the world of CSS with tables... "ahh...eeek!" you say. With the impending release of IE8 the selector display, can now be utilised in a way to resurrect the table design.
   
   Whilst the book mentions tables (well to be honest the whole of the book is dedeicated to table design) I dont get the impression that its forced on me, like saying this is the new way because...blah blah.. it gives you another angle to work with. Designers that use CSS have used hacks to make this and that work, so for me personally it does question some aspects of CSS, has it been used properly?
   
   It then dives deeper into what we can expect from CSS3, and im personally excited about this.
   
   What I have learnt from it is that as designers we have to be aware of whats new and constantly be on the lookout for ways of arming ourselves with new skills.
   
   Reading the existing reviews of this book reminds me of the attitudes of designers who loved using tables....that was their method and it worked, all the time, their work rate was efficient. So for something new to come along and question it...ooohh thats going to make them unhappy.
   
   One thing I would say is that this book would have been better if it was made available from sitepoint as a pdf book,free ofcourse. Its just too thin...saying that I am glad I purchased it.
   
   This book should get you thinking...thats all...and thats good.

5. Very disappointing book

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, November 12th, 2008

   They've been hyping up this book on Sitepoint for weeks and, after just reading it, I have no idea why.
   
   For the price, I hadn't expected this book to be half as thick as other Sitepoint books, and only really contain information about one CSS property. This should have just been an addition to the existing CSS Reference book/web site.
   
   It is trying to promote CSS table layouts as the new way to layout web site designs, but without IE8 being out until next year, and still needing to support IE6 and IE7 when it is out, the solutions offered in this book (using conditional commenting) makes so much extra work that I ended up wondering what really were the benefits of using CSS table layouts. Having not built a web site using HTML tables for layout before, I find that this layout doesn't seem as logical as the book assumes. I'm sticking with floats for the foreseeable future!
   
   If, like me, you have assumed that it would have more about new specifications to CSS3, rather than just being about CSS table layouts, and you're after that kind of reference, I recommend the last chapter of Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design (Voices That Matter). It covers far more than this entire book in just one chapter.