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Releasing CSS, by Christopher Schmitt Reviewed by John Davey

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... and will be included in the new Vista version of Windows. Releasing CSS is both a reference and a tutorial. ... Hacking System that explains the principle and practice of hack management

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Releasing CSS,  by Christopher Schmitt Reviewed by John Davey Releasing CSS,  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love IE7, is a recent addition to OReilly Medias Short Cut library. OReilly Medias Short Cuts are brief and inexpensive PDF publications about technology that focus on relatively narrow subjects.  Many of the titles are also time-sensitive as they address topics that are particularly current. Releasing CSS is a good fit for the Short Cut concept. This PDF addresses cascading style sheet (CSS) support in version 7 of Microsofts Internet Explorer browser.  This topic is a matter of immediate interest to web developers as IE7 is currently being rolled out as an upgrade and will be included in the new Vista version of Windows. Releasing CSS is both a reference and a tutorial. It starts with a concise review of IE support for CSS,  a  good introduction for beginners and a useful resource for veterans. In the course of explaining the deficiencies of IE6, the author discusses a few relevant CSS selectors and uses graphical depictions of HTML document trees to illustrates how selectors work. The graphics are very effective,  and a beginner would learn a lot just from this section. Experienced designers can benefit as well by gaining some new familiarity with CSS selectors,  like child and adjacent sibling selectors,  that have not been commonly used up to now due to lack of IE support. Among the other topics covered are PNG alpha transparency, the box model, a long and annotated list of CSS rendering bugs, a list of selectors that IE7 supports,  and a discussion of what support is still not provided,  such as generated content.  The author even points out a new bug, and he then provides a workaround. There is an explanation of IE hacks that is a nice reference,  and a section on ways to deliver pages depending on the browser,  a useful technique ...

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