Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

Acknowledgments

Writing a book is by no means a solitary activity, except maybe for my wife, who spent many an evening wondering if I’d ever come down from my office. So I’d like to take a moment to thank the people who have backed me up during the long process of getting this book on the shelves.

First off, I’d like to thank everyone at O’Reilly for sticking with me through all the delays. Due to one event or another, not to mention changes in the CSS realm itself, I managed to stretch out the process so far that I had three editor changes before it was all said and done—and one of those editors, in the style of Grover Cleveland, took on the project twice. Thank you all for your patience, understanding, and willingness to do what was best for the book. Thanks especially to Lorrie LeJeune and Molly Wood; and also to Marlowe Shaeffer and David Futato, who really went the extra mile to make things as right as could be.

I’d also like to thank most profoundly my technical reviewers, Tantek Çelik and Ian Hickson. Both gentlemen lent their considerable expertise and insight to the project, keeping me honest and up-to-date on the latest changes in CSS2.1 as well as taking me to task for sloppy descriptions and muddled explanations. The book could not have been as good as it is without them, and whatever errors you find in the text are my fault, not theirs. This has become a tired cliché, but it is so true that it’s almost impossible to avoid saying it.

There are a few personal acknowledgments ...