Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong

http://www.sitepoint.com/books/csswrong1

If you think you're using all that CSS has to offer, you're WRONG.
Don’t be left behind!

Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong! is an eye-opening exposé on CSS as we know it today. You’ll discover a fresh approach to coding Cascading Style Sheets where old hacks and workarounds are just a distant memory.

In this video, co-author Kevin Yank explains the premise of this groundbreaking book: that the advent of CSS table support in all the major browsers is about to change the way you design web pages for the better. He also addresses some of the controversy surrounding the book; are CSS tables truly ready for prime time?

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• book
• CSS
• design
• development
• Kevin
• SitePoint
• standards
• web
• Yank

[floopy312]

Im a beginner in CSS and i was wondering if a must read this book as well as

"Build your own web site. The Right Way using HTML and CSS" or just this last one.

I mean, will the last one give me all the information i need to make good CSS styles?

[SitePoint]

Hi floopy312,

This book is for people who already know CSS, so you should definitely also pick up "Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML and CSS" to learn the basics first.

[Janissary225]

firstly, i do like the way that cup reflects on that desk, reminds me of my CSS projects :p

secondly, that was actually a good informative preview/review of the book, but you give alot of attention to I.E8, what about other browsers? will firefox, opera and others support the css tables?

and finally your not wrong about CSS in its present state, there are times when it makes you want to rip your hair out just to align something in a certain way.

[SitePoint]

Glad you enjoyed the video!

Yes, Firefox, Opera, and Safari all support CSS tables already. Internet Explorer is just the last to the party (as usual).

[sik4toyz]

Mr. Yank, you said it; IE 6 and 7 still don't support CSS tables--there fore we have workarounds for all browsers, which in fact, does make more work, not to mention more testing. I know you like to be ahead of the curve, but its simply not practical to implement. Not yet.

*If you have stats on when that minority will be on the older browsers, then out with it!

[shonkyboy]

And another of my problems for One is the Title "Everything you know about CSS is Wrong" when most of what i know about CSS is FROM Sitepoint books I have bought!(And Mr Meyer of course)

[PktMma]

I'm having a hard time finding info on CSS Tables.

[UberLifeTroll]

Is he a faggot? I'm gay too btw, so it's ok to ask if he's a fag ;)

[CCalo24]

Sad to see all talk and no code.

[guitarobsessed85]

@SitePoint Glad to see you mentioning the book I was already thinking about buying. Do you have an affiliation with the author by chance?

[joels341]

Wow........ ok, look. If you really want to know how to make a website correctly, work with a team of web programmers and learn from them. You can't get this experience from a book.

Why make your div tags look like a table just to recreate the web 1.0 functionality with CSS? This is a god awful waste of time and technology.

If you need to resort to CSS tables to program your whole site, you are doing something wrong. A website is not a table!

[jonasxx100]

OMG shot up!

[BirminghamDan]

i thought u were gonna really prove people wrong but your video doesn't live up to its title. so i will give u something that will genuinely live up to such a title:

styles are still semantic data, so they should be still be marked up in XML. and maybe one day, we'll have a tool which can organise the web by the colours used and all kinds of other style-wise factors that some people really want to parse and store in their database.

[t3kn0b0y]

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