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Awesome book on web standards

Posted on August 26, 2004 
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Do you ever read something and realize that you were about to throw everything you knew before out the window? Over a year ago, I read Eric Meyer’s Eric Meyer on CSS just around the same time that I read Jeffrey Zeldman’s Designing with Web Standards and I knew that I would never look at laying out a web page the same again. I couldn’t build a website the old way now if I tried.

A few days ago I picked up Dan Cederholm’s Web Standards Solutions and I’m hearing the same music cueing up. In case you’re not a web standards zealot, Dan Cederholm was behind many well-known standards sites including “Fast Company”:http://www.fastcompany.com and “ESPN.”:http://www.espn.com It is the perfect follow-up to Zeldman’s book. Zeldman takes a lot of pages charting the ground for web standards. Cederholm doesn’t have to waste any time convincing the reader regarding web standards. He assumes that you’re already sold, you know your IDs from your classes and you’re reading his book to go a level deeper and do it better. I’m only about 60 pages in (yes, I’m reading this one cover-to-cover) and I already had a few “Ah ha! Now I get it!” moments that made the book well worth buying. The sites I code are all valid XHTML/CSS already, but there’s always room for improvement where you can make the code leaner, cleaner and more accessible.

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