2008-05-11 There is no science

I am sorry, but I don't agree with rating this book more than two stars for the following reason.

1- The method used is the static way of creating mark ups for example creating the photo album with out server side include (ssi will reduce the amount of typing and would make things easier to understand instead of having so many pages to create.

2- the title says the art and science of css, what you will find is only art work. There is no explanation of the meaning of each code. its only examples.

I don't recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn css.
this book is not for beginners even though the concept is. the book has failed to show beginners how to start for example file extension save as etc.
this book is only recommended to wanna be web masters who wants to borrow some ready made examples (serious web masters don't need this book)

when i bought this book i expected to find information about the following:
absolute and relative positioning. And how to use them together in one application for example you could have an absolute inside relative to have a two or more boxes as parents child relation.
the usage of percentages, pixel, etc in relation to screen.
more details about ms explorer bugs and how to fix them.
and more

unfortunately the book does not have any explanation and clearly the title is misleading by using the term science.

sadly as always, bad books takes lots of writers and this book is one of them. It took five writers.

If you want to learn css don't buy this book.
If you want examples and just examples this book is for you
If you don't know css this book is not a very good start.