I just bought Web Design in a Nutshell and was impressed with the content, format and the convenient size of the book. It has already answered several questions I had about HTML.

I would like to encourage your efforts in books about the Mac platform. I realize to some we are fringe, but, having worked with the Mac, various flavors of DOS/Win, and all the cross-platform issues of file transfer, and lately, my employers introduction of Unix based system, and the attempt to get my colleagues connected and working with Macs in a Unix environment, I still prefer the Mac. I think, with the direction the Mac OS is heading (that is, Mac OS coexisting with Unix in some form on the same hardware) there will be more people trying to a) understand Unix b)connect their Macs to Unix servers and c) transfer files. It would be a great help to those of us in that situation to have reference works that help us understand the underlying Unix operation/philosophy(in the freeware, university sense) and to know what tools are available to ease the passage of our files into the Unix world. My next book is likely to be your book on MacPerl. I welcome any others you might publish about the Mac, and Unix.

Thanks, and keep up the good work.

Jane O'Dell

Jane,

Thanks. We're definitely expanding our Mac publishing program. Proposals are welcome.

BTW, the MacPerl book is from Prime Time Freeware, not from O'Reilly. We're talking with Rich Morin and Vicky Brown (the authors) about doing another book for us.

Note: Authors and prospective authors who are interested in sending proposals to O'Reilly should see our guidelines.

--Tim

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