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Friday, July 01, 2005

Light blogging today

Light blogging today. I'm working on the site redesign, doing some gardening, and (I hope) buying a DVD player that will lost longer than 9 months (I hope some more).

One word for my good friends at WROX publishing. In your book, Beginning CSS, you might want to clue folks into the notion that you can't start a user-defined selector with a number. Some crazy dude might want to name a selector "3WNPost", for example, and spent an hour trying to figure out why nothing is working. Bold-face type on that would be appreciated.

Also, your index sucks.

5 Comments:

This CSS book's getting good press. Stupid title, though.

By Joseph Thvedt, at 11:57 AM

Thanks for the tip. Maybe I can grab a copy from the library.

By Hammer, at 12:22 PM

Hammer: I'm the editor for the book and I've passed on your comments to the author. Thanks for the feedback.

If you'd like to contact me at jimminatel@gmail.com with any more specific feedback about what sucks about the index, I'll pass it along to our indexing team so hopefully we can improve.

By Anonymous, at 12:06 PM

I'm the author of the aforementioned "Beginning CSS" book.

The bit about starting a user-defined selector, e.g. class or id names with a number was an oversight on my part. Being a veteran PHP programmer, I've just always been used to the "you can't start variables, ids, classnames, etc with a number" rule, so it being second nature to me, mentioning it didn't even cross my mind.

I've heard your feedback though, and I will mention it in the 2nd edition, if and when there is one.

By Anonymous, at 12:30 PM

Thanks both to Jim and Richard for their comments. I've been using the book a lot. If I gave the book a full & fair review, I'd give it high marks. As with most books, all the stuff that's easy to understand, easy to work with, and produces good results is quickly forgotten. It's the little annoyance that (probably) only affects me which I choose to mention.

If you like the new look, it's all been done with Richard York's book. If you don't like the new look, I'm probably the one to blame.

By Hammer, at 12:46 PM