Comments on: The Zen of CSS Design http://www.code-zen.net/2008/the-zen-of-css-design/ Peter Anselmo's Home on the Web Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:43:12 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Andy Ford http://www.code-zen.net/2008/the-zen-of-css-design/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Andy Ford Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:53:19 +0000 http://code-zen.net/?p=127#comment-5 @Peter - Thanks for providing such an honest review. I'm so tired of book reviews that don't tell the whole story. I especially like the bit about word-stuffing for the sake of word count. There are plenty of web books I haven't read - including this one - but I'd agree that many are too fast for the beginner yet not enough for the experienced. As for the little 2 cell table... if it really is tabular data, then it should be a table, otherwise I might use a Definition List (if it's semantically appropriate) or some combo of divs, spans, strongs, and/or ems. Being that this book was published in February 2005, the bulk of the writing was presumably done in 2004 when the web standards (and the "don't use tables for layout") movement was still shouting like crazy to win over few converts. So it doesn't surprise me that they'd be more idealists and gloss over any compromises. @Peter – Thanks for providing such an honest review. I’m so tired of book reviews that don’t tell the whole story. I especially like the bit about word-stuffing for the sake of word count.

There are plenty of web books I haven’t read – including this one – but I’d agree that many are too fast for the beginner yet not enough for the experienced.

As for the little 2 cell table… if it really is tabular data, then it should be a table, otherwise I might use a Definition List (if it’s semantically appropriate) or some combo of divs, spans, strongs, and/or ems.

Being that this book was published in February 2005, the bulk of the writing was presumably done in 2004 when the web standards (and the “don’t use tables for layout”) movement was still shouting like crazy to win over few converts. So it doesn’t surprise me that they’d be more idealists and gloss over any compromises.

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