Archive for June, 2007
HTML Mastery (Book review)
June 2, 2007 [11:35 pm] 2 CommentsI picked up this book because I wanted to know more about html. I have been hand coding html for some time but I knew that there is a lot more about it. So far I was using just the basic elements like headings, paragraphs, lists etc. but that was pretty much it.
I have expected from this book to wide my knowledge about html and semantic web. After reading this book I am really satisfied.
Paul describes most of the html elements and explains which way they should be used correctly. How to handle tables, forms, including accessibility issues and css styling.Very important part of the book is dedicated to microformats where he talks about hcard, hreview, hcalendar and others. I personally think that this is the future of the internet. It will make life lot more easier for all the people and all machines who will use the internet in the future, specially search engines. And the most important, once you realize how easy and simple it is you will jump on the train straight away. This post is coded as hreview. My contact details are coded as hcard. What can I say more.
Last part of the book briefly describes terms such are RDF, Web 2.0, XML and Paul is giving us trip to the future of html such are Xforms which will have for example validation implemented without need of using javascript and so on.
Anyone looking for solid html background will find this book extremely useful. I am going to use it very often from now on until I memorize all the elements and best practice principles. I would recommend it to all designers and developers on any level of html knowledge.
Thank you Paul!
- Rating: ★★★★★
- Reviewed: May 30, 2007
- Book’s home page: HTML Mastery
