May 2000
Intermediate to advanced
472 pages
14h 17m
English
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Acknowledgments
This book was written with a single goal: to make Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) easy to learn, understand, and use. Of course, there is much more to this goal than meets the eye. Trying to translate tersely defined algorithms into comprehensible English isn’t always as easy as it sounds.
In my work on this book, I found myself crawling through the various nooks and crannies of CSS, creating test suites, and banging my head against myriad problems, not to mention the aforementioned web browser limitations. Along the way, I encountered a number of people whom I’d like to thank.
First, of course, are Håkon Wium Lie of Opera Software and Bert Bos of the W3C for their efforts in creating Cascading Style Sheets, and for answering many of my questions on the http://www.w3.org/Mail/Lists.html#www-style mailing list, even the foolish ones. I’d also like to thank Chris Lilley, also of the W3C, for encouraging my attempts to help make the web more stylish. His words of praise for some of my earliest efforts came at exactly the right moment to spur me on, and it was he who made it possible for me to join the World Wide Web Consortium’s CSS&FP Working Group.
Tim O’Reilly took a big chance in giving me my first shot at a major professional publication, for which I will always be grateful. My editor at O’Reilly, Richard Koman, was more than patient with me during the writing process, and I probably should have shown my gratitude by sending in more rough drafts. Tara McGoldrick, also ...
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