With all that's changed in the meantime, an overhaul is welcome. This is the rare book for designers that is almost completely nonvisual. It doesn't show what's hip in navigational bars or what the coolest colors are. Rather, it gives readers the kind of know-how that can make a difference between someone who just whips up pretty pages with WYSIWYG applications like Dreamweaver and someone who can make those pages cross-platform, cross-browser, fast loading, and accessible to all.
The clear organization makes it easy to locate any specific topic. There are six sections. "The Web Environment" discusses the realities of browser compatibility, display-resolution problems, a useful bit of Unix, and tips for print designers looking to move into Web design. "Authoring" shows how to write accurate and up-to-date HTML, cascading style sheets, and Server Side Includes (like putting the current date and time on your homepage).
"Graphics" brings together all you need to know to make effective use of images (GIFs, JPEGS, PNGs, and animated GIFs). "Multimedia and Interactivity" helps with adding audio, video, or Flash to your site (including some succinct tips on optimization and publish settings). And "Advanced Technologies" covers JavaScript, DHTML, XML, XHTML, and WAP and WML. And there are six useful look-up tables in the appendix, which include HTML 4.0 tags, deprecated tags, attributes, and CSS support across browsers. Web Design in a Nutshell could easily have been titled The Web Designer's Companion--it's mighty handy to have around. --Angelynn Grant
Web Design in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition is an excellent reference for HTML 4.01 tags (including tables, frames, forms, color, and cascading style sheets) with special attention given to browser support, platform idiosyncrasies, and standards. You'll also find lots of updated information on using graphics, multimedia, audio and video, and advanced technologies such Dynamic HTML, Javascript, and XML, as well as new chapters on XHTML, WML, and SMIL. This book is an indispensable tool for web designers and authors of all levels.
tags, etc. I used this book to learn to separate page content from formatting using CSS. I find that it is a good reference book to have on my desk.
question.......2007-03-25
I read a lot of reviews. I have still 1 edition of this book from 2001 year.
And there was information how design stuff works for IE and Netscape.
But IE is sucks and Netscape is also and in all reviews of this book i saw only mention of IE.
Is there any information 'bout difference in how pages look in IE and Mozzila FireFox?
Great Reference Book.......2007-03-08
This is a great book that I use on a daily basis. Well most of it is reference material, from W3C and elsewhere, it's very well-organized. I owned the previous edition and will probably purchase the next edition as well.
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- Necessary for SGML; useless for XML
- Required SGML Reading IF
- Turgid, obscure, confusing; but essential for advanced SGML.
- The official ISO standard.
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The SGML Handbook
Charles F. Goldfarb
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The next five years will see a revolution in computing. Users will no longer have to work at every computer task as if they had no need or ability to share data with all their other computer tasks, they will not need to act as if the computer is simply a replacement for paper, nor will they have to appease computers or software programs that seem to be at war with one another. The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is the technical advance enabling this revolution, and Dr Charles Goldfarb of the IBM Almaden Research Center is its inventor. The SGML Handbook gives the reader Dr Goldfarb's thoughts on each clause in this widely adopted international standard, and guides the reader through every detail of SGML. The SGML Handbook includes the up-to-date amended full text of ISO 8879, extensively annotated, cross-referenced, and indexed; a detailed, structured overview of SGML, covering every concept; additional tutorial and reference material; a unique `push-button access system' that provides hypertext links between the standard, annotations, overview, and tutorials. SGML will improve the productivity and competitiveness of all computer users if its sophistication is now harnessed by developers of SGML applications and implementors of SGML systems. These are the people who will find this book an invaluable guide and an authoritative voice.
Customer Reviews:
Necessary for SGML; useless for XML.......2002-04-08
This book is, regrettably, the one authoritative book on the SGML standard. Given how broad and confusing the SGML standard is, it's not surprising that this book on it is equally opaque -- this is, in my experience, the worst-written technical book I've ever seen that is not actually inaccurate. But if you're doing serious SGML development, you have no choice but to get this book and to spent forever trying to make sense of it.
But beware: if you're doing just XML, and if you think "well, since XML is a form of SGML, I might as well get the SGML standard", don't do it! XML is all you need to know, then just look at the XML standard, at ...and maybe also get a book specifically about XML. I happen to like Eckstein and Casabianca's /XML Pocket Reference/, partly because it's less than one-tenth the price of the SGML standard, and a hundred times more useful!
Required SGML Reading IF.......2000-02-09
you are planning on really getting into the world of SGML. If you are a beginner, or just playing with SGML, this book isn't for you. The book does contain the entire ISO 8879 standard and is extensively cross referenced. After five years using it, I still find it easy to get lost in the references. If you want the final, definative word from the MAN who wrote the standard, this is it.
Turgid, obscure, confusing; but essential for advanced SGML........1996-08-07
This is a particularly badly written book on a particularly
badly designed and written standard, SGML.
However, SGML is so far the only reasonably universal and
standard way of marking up text, and this is the only
comprehensive treatment of it, including all the peculiar
little bits that you probably should never use. The book
includes the full text of the ISO standard as well as
cross-references and annotation.
The book, like the standard, uses terminology and notation
which are not standard in the rest of computer science. The
tutorial material is weak. The book design is ugly and hard
to read.
Yet SGML, bad as it is, is an important and useful standard,
and this is a comprehensive reference for it. Let us hope
that both the standard and the book will be improved radically
in the future.
The official ISO standard........1996-02-04
This is not the first book you should read about SGML, but if you are going to do any serious development in SGML, you need this on your bookshelf. It contains the entire text of the ISO standard, plus Goldfarb's annotations
Average customer rating:
- As good as XML
- Not really a Handbook
- XML = eXtensive Marketing Leads...
- decent
- Not really an introduction or a handbook.
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The XML Handbook (3rd Edition)
Charles F. Goldfarb , and
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Learning the basics of the XML language is one thing; understanding how it really can be used in today's commercial applications is quite another. The third edition of The XML Handbook compiles the XML strategies of over two dozen companies, to provide a unique look at how XML is being used right now.
Coauthored by Charles F. Goldfarb, the author of SGML--the parent markup specification of XML--this book comprises two parts. In the first, the XML language is explained in the broader context of SGML, and markup in general. The real heart of the book, however, is in part two. This much larger section is a collection of topical expositions on XML that are sponsored by companies such as Sun, IBM, Adobe, and Microsoft--giving the reader a look at a broad spectrum of XML strategies and uses.
The introductory chapters are written superbly from the perspective of true XML experts who understand its full context. For example, the book describes MOM and POP--message-oriented-middleware and presentation-oriented-publishing--the two seemingly opposite extremes of application types that are served by XML.
In the remaining bulk of the text, readers are treated to industry briefings on real-world XML application designs, ranging from online auctions to EDI and from health care applications to content management. Each sponsored chapter captures the flavor of the company's viewpoint of XML, and is well documented with diagrams and code examples where appropriate. Collectively, they stand as an unprecedented snapshot of real-world XML expertise. --Stephen W. Plain
Topics covered:
- Markup
- Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
- Schemas
- Xpath
- XSL
- XSLT
- XLink
- XSDL
- Multimedia publishing
- E-business
- Personalization
- Online auctions
- Information servers
- Data exchange
- Collaboration
- Enterprise information portals (EIPs)
- Document conversion
- Vocabularies
- Topic maps
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As good as XML.......2003-08-05
ectetera: creando la necesidad
XML: proponiendo un plan
este y otros libros: creando la coyuntura
Nosotros: los gilipollas
Not really a Handbook.......2001-11-29
A few years ago, I bought Dr Goldfarb's great "SGML Handbook". I thought "The XML Handbook" would be something similar.
The book contains, roughly, 100 pages of introduction to XML; 250 pages of tutorials on XML and its subcultures; and almost 600 pages of corporate presentations, of varying quality, on various aspects of XML application and implementation.
The introduction and tutorials, although good, didn't have the depth I was looking for.
The corporate bit addresses a very broad range of interesting issues, with varying levels of detail, but never enough to "solve the problem".
So for me, the signal-to-noise ratio was pretty low.
Let me give an example of a major gap in the book's coverage: I had hoped to gain much more insight into the relative merits of using attributes as against using element content; but I finished the book no wiser than when I started (other than having seen some examples where I disagreed with the approach taken).
The CD-ROMs didn't add much value, either: the web has moved on very rapidly.
To add to my disappointment, the production of the book is not of a high standard.
- The rendering of low-level headings leaves a lot to be desired (Ex: I looked at 33.2.2.6.4 on page 480 for fully 30 seconds before understanding that it was a heading). So does that of block quotes, which appear to run on to the following paragraph.
- Many footnotes on a left-hand page with callouts on the previous page make reading a chore (Ex: fn #2 on pp 59 and 60). There is a general disdain for any attempt to keep figures on the same left-right page pair as their references.
- It might have been less irritating, too, to use a single numbering space for all Figures, Examples, Tables, and Spec Excerpts, rather than obliging the reader to work out the sometimes subtle difference between "Example 8-1" and "Figure 8-1".
This book, I understand from the Preface, was itself prepared using XML. Unfortunately, good markup for publishing is of little use without excellent rendering. I got a strong impression of unseemly haste to get the book out before getting the rendering up to scratch. So readability was badly crippled (unlike The SGML Handbook).
One last damn. So far, I've read the book just once. Although I'm kind to books, the cover is already dog-eared and de-laminating. It probably doesn't matter, because, in contrast to "The SGML Handbook", reading this book a second time won't add anything. That's another reason I think it wrong to call it a Handbook.
More in sorrow than in anger, then: two stars for Dr. Goldfarb, zero for Prentice-Hall.
XML = eXtensive Marketing Leads..........2001-07-26
...at least that is what the publisher was trying to provide the companies...oops...I mean authors with.
I don't mind the format except that it was written by the marketing departments, and not the people who actually do the work. As a technician I found it useless, insulting, and full of wishy-washy statements (no I can't give you examples because I threw the book away a long time ago). However, they are the kind of statements I'm constantly fighting over today (with our company's executives) like "seamless integration." What does that mean? To my company execs it means no more pain. No more money to be spent. We do XML right? Then why can't we import that document format today? What do you mean we can only handle certain XML standards - "the whole company thinks we do XML, and your telling me we don't!"
This book is part of the "do XML B2B and get rich quick" fiasco of 2000.
I like Charles Goldfarb, but he sold out to the wall street MBA types who have completely unrealistic expectations of what technology can and can not do.
decent.......2001-06-21
The tutorials are very good although the book seems mostly to be a product review with the reviews written by the companys whose products they are.
Not really an introduction or a handbook........2001-02-15
There are far better books, that cost less, are more concise and
reveal a lot more about XML and the impact it is starting to have on
society. If you are a programmer seeking a technical guide, this is
not for you either.
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- A WebSphere 4 (and tools) guide for confirmed webapp writers
- not enough real world examples
- Good book for J3EE designers and Architects
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Ueli Wahli ,
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A WebSphere 4 (and tools) guide for confirmed webapp writers.......2006-08-14
This book covers every step of the Web application development lifecycle, from requirements analysis, through analysis and design, implementation, and testing and deployment. The coverage in each chapter is not exhaustive about the development step, nor is it an introduction to it. Rather, it gives a reminder of what the step is meant to be, and explains how to apply the existing IBM and open-source tools to fulfill the step in the application development process. The content is objective-driven, with code snippets, step-by-step instructions, and screen captures. Each chapter gives a list of complementary references for the reader to complete his knowledge of the topic. Besides IBM's WebSphere 4 Application Server, the llist of tools and products covered in this book includes DB2, Rational Rose, Visual Age, Struts, and Ant.
This book is good at what it does, and one should not expect more. This book is not a tutorial about Web application development, it only helps to learn about WebSphere 4 and a bit about the tools that can be used to get a WebSphere 3 application out. To learn about how to write J2EE webapps in general, you should definitely turn toward a dedicated tutorial.
It came to me to get a copy of this book when I was starting as a software developer on a WebSphere 4 project. This book has been a key inspiration to me, providing me with the opportunity to complete my development skills with other book recommendations. Not only as a handbook, it has been also useful to me as a "reading dispatcher". I definitely want to keep this book with me on future WebSphere 4 projects.
If you have made sure this is the book you need, you will be happy with it.
not enough real world examples.......2003-04-02
This book is kinda ok. It gives basic understanding of how WebSphere works. But this material is absolutely insufficient to help developers working with the product. I would probably better spend money on smth else.
Good book for J3EE designers and Architects.......2002-09-06
J2EE architect and designer should read this book. Eventhough the title says ...Websphere 4.0..., this book talks about Ant, Struts, the environment setup and lot more, in simple steps and good example snippets
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This is a shocking behind the scenes look at the New York City Police Department. It is the story of one man's struggle to survive bigotry, with the added burden of the Internal Affairs "monkey" on his back. Read how this black cop was able to overcome the forces that were arrayed against him: the powerful union, vengeful bosses, fellow police officers and even many of his own black comrades. He battled these demons, while still engaging the dangerous criminals of New York City
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