VisiBone Browser Book for Web Designers: A Complete Client-Side Technology Memory Jogger for Colors, Fonts, HTML, CSS (Style Sheets), and JavaScript [Spiral-bound]

Bob Stein (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2004

Quick reference cheatsheet compilation of all web browser technologies:

- Colors
- Fonts
- Special Characters (© é £)
- HTML (including XHTML)
- CSS (style sheets)
- JavaScript (500 self-testing examples)
- DOM (document object model)
- Regular Expressions (text patterns)
- SSI
- URL's (%xx character table)

Features:

- Color-coded browser compatibility
- Tested on dozens of combinations of browser and operating system
- Back-page legend, index, contents
- Large print, clear type
- Nonstandard ("deprecated") features cross-referenced to standard features

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Bob Stein spelunks web technologies and writes dense, clue-packed memory-joggers for working web designers. His wife Patty does fulfillment and there's only occasional

confusion as to who's boss. Child labor is employed for some of the fun parts. The six of us have lived, worked, played and rough-housed in Fort Lauderdale Florida,

Brunswick Maine, and Colombia South America.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 16 pages
• Publisher: VisiBone (August 2004)
• ISBN-10: 0967826373
• ISBN-13: 978-0967826370
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 8.7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,608,523 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great time-saver, January 31, 2005

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P. Eakle (Big Oak Flat, Ca., United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: VisiBone Browser Book for Web Designers: A Complete Client-Side Technology Memory Jogger for Colors, Fonts, HTML, CSS (Style Sheets), and JavaScript (Spiral-bound)

Anyone who regularly finds themselves looking up syntax for an HTML tag, CSS Style, and/or Javascript statement in a book (e.g. check index and then flip to page) will like this VisiBone booklet because it will save you time. In fact, I hardly look in my books any more for this type of info -- a quick lookup in this booklet is all I need. There is also other helpful info in the book besides just syntax, for example, if an HTML tag has an equivalent Style, it will tell you that next to the HTML tag. There is a lot of detail here in just a few pages and the color format is very readable; it's like a portable reference library for client developers -- great for coding on the road because of its portability.

4.0 out of 5 stars For the Serious Web Developer, March 29, 2005

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DigitalGuy (CR, IA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: VisiBone Browser Book for Web Designers: A Complete Client-Side Technology Memory Jogger for Colors, Fonts, HTML, CSS (Style Sheets), and JavaScript (Spiral-bound)

Lots of information packed into this spiral bound set of 5 laminated 8.5 x 11 inch cards. You won't need as many reference books, as most of the frequently used items can be found in this set. The color chart is a must have. Printed in a very small but crisp font. Not as well made a previous sets from this publisher, but still good if you're seriously into web development.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Reference Guide for any Developer, April 26, 2008

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Mary Jo Sminkey "dog trainer and web programmer" (Durham, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: VisiBone Browser Book for Web Designers: A Complete Client-Side Technology Memory Jogger for Colors, Fonts, HTML, CSS (Style Sheets), and JavaScript (Spiral-bound)

This cards really are quite beautifully printed, on good thick stock paper and have tons of great material. The color information is not quite as relevant now that using web-safe colors isn't a big deal, but this book has so much other great information, particularly if you do coding work and need the Javascript, DOM and RegEx guides. The CSS guide is also my favorite quick-reference sheet for doing style work. The only thing I don't particularly care for is how the JS and RegEx guides have "assert()" around most of the statements. While I understand from a programming standpoint this is more correct in terms of it being a "test" statement, it reduces the readability of what is really just a guide, not an actual programming construct. But that's a fairly minor nit, overall this is highly-recommended, go find yourself a copy!