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What our customer's say!

"Not Great for Quick Reference", The table of contents is minimal, and the real reference content is in one big section of tags in alphabetical order, so you have to page down until you get to what you're looking for. Also, the 4th edition of the book from 2000 had great appendices with CSS information, but that's missing from this reference. The lack of a good ToC or any index makes this not useful for quick reference.

"Great Reference Book!", This book was used for a college course as a reference book. Served it's purpose and came in handy. Good buy.

"Excelent Reference Material", This book is great if you are looking for a html/xhtml Reference guide. This has helped me greatly in my Intro. to Web programing class. There are a lot of attributes to know for html/xhtml programing and having this book in front of me helps when I get to one I don't know.

"coleen's review", I am studying web design right now and this book will be very helpful to me. I just hope oneday they will have an iPhone app. So it'll be very handy.

"Necessary for Web Developers", I have read this reference book twice through in preparation for an exam. I know it's not set up to be read from cover to cover like a normal book, but it worked great for a quick and easy to carry around review for the exam.

This book covers all of the fundamental concepts of (X)HTML, including the differentiation between HTML and XHTML. You will get a complete list of elements (a.k.a. tags) along with all attributes that apply to each element. This book also does a good job of identifying the elements and attributes that are deprecated for XHTML. Examples of each element are included, but they are very generic and simplistic. Overall, you get the essentials of what you need to know about (X)HTML; therefore this book is a must have for web developers.

This book does not contain an index. As far as the elements are concerned, an index is not necessary. They are in alphabetical order, so an index of the elements would be redundant. Honestly, every time I needed to reference this book, I was able to locate exactly what I was looking for without the need of an index.

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"No index?", What kind of a reference book doesn't have an index? Sure, the tag reference is in alphabetical order, but that only helps if you remember what the tag is. Also, I had a brain fart this morning and couldn't remember the exact syntax for a comment (I work with way too many languages)- couldn't find it. That's what a pocket reference is supposed to be for, the little things you can't remember!

"DSM IV Made Easy", This is an excellent text and well illustrated. I am sure an updated edition will come out soon.

"No index?", I'm a big fan of the O'Reilly Pocket Reference series, but this one was a bit disappointing. While the basic content is there, the book is less than 100 pages and seems to only be a wrapper for three tables defining the common elements, character entities, and colors. Only the first five pages attempt to provide any foundation for the tables. Missing are more general references on forms, tables, scripting or even techniques for relative/absolute addressing. Probably most surprising was the lack of an index. For a pocket reference, that seems a pretty major oversight.

"Great Book!", Hi there,

This is really a great book!

I needed a reference for HTML to help me work on my "invention" which is an HTML parser...It goes to web-sites, parses each page and finds the URLs embedded inside the HTML tags.

The main part of this book, HTML Elements, which covers 70 pages, is extra-ordinarily well made. It gives you all the information those monster +500 pages do but it is only pocket-sized and easy to carry.

I will use this book so that my "invention" knows the HTML syntax; and any other HTML projects I begin.

Big thanks to Jennifer Niederst Robbins and O'Reilly Media, Inc.!

'til next time,
Charles Darakdjian

"Indispensable Reference", Large books, by their very nature, can have good points and bad points. After all, if you have a couple or several hundred pages worth of material, you are bound to get some things right and some things wrong.
But these pocket reference books from O'Reilly are great. They aren't for learning, rather they are what they say they are: a pocket reference. (Nice to see some truth in advertising for a change.)
If you buy this book you will use it. A lot. Period.