HTML & XHTML The Definitive Guide (5th edn)

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standards since it was first published (as HTML: The Definitive Guide), most. significantly the emergence of XHTML. Despite that recent addition to its …

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HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide (5th edn)
by Chuck Musciano & Bill Kennedy
O’Reilly, August 2002
ISBN 0-596-00382-x
645pp. $39.95 US, $61.95 CA, ?28.50 UK
A casual search at amazon.com turns up almost a thousand titles relating to
HTML. This book, as part of O’Reilly’s Definitive Guide range, may wish to be
seen as a class apart, which, to a certain degree, it is.
Now in its fifth edition, the book has seen many changes to web markup
standards since it was first published (as HTML: The Definitive Guide), most
significantly the emergence of XHTML. Despite that recent addition to its
title, this is still a book largely about HTML.
The authors present a clearly organised, extensive tour of HTML and its
features. They include along the way many useful tips and hacks for
achieving desired behaviour, as well as advice on browser support and
functionality. There are helpful notes on obsolescent and obsolete features of
both language and browsers. This body of knowledge, together with some
sensible stylistic pointers, commends itself to novice and seasoned web
author alike.
XHTML is mentioned where appropriate, although the authors’ attitude
towards the…