{"id":32,"date":"2005-02-23T16:40:04","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T21:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2017-02-23T10:06:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:06:22","slug":"css-books-outdated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2005\/css-books-outdated\/","title":{"rendered":"Most CSS books are now outdated."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2005\/ie7-breaks-common-css-hacks\/\">IE7 development<\/a>, where many commonly used CSS hacks will now break many websites in the future (forward compatibility myth destroyed &#8230;) because (ironically) IE7 will be Web Standards compliant.<\/p>\n<p>Many CSS books will have to be pulled from the shelves given a liberal use of hackery in many titles including:<\/p>\n<p>    * Eric Meyer on CSS<br \/>\n    * More Eric Meyer on CSS<br \/>\n    * The Zen of CSS design<br \/>\n    * 250 HTML and Web Design Secrets<br \/>\n    * Web Standards Solutions<br \/>\n    * Designing with Web Standards<\/p>\n<p>All these books (and several more,) make use of hacks and as such are outdated.<\/p>\n<p>BTW: many of the titles are well written and have some good information in them (I&#8217;ve read them all and given several of them positive reviews &#8230; overall,) but nonetheless, the aforementioned flaws make these titles land mines for the unsuspecting web designer.<\/p>\n<p>False prophets be gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commonly used CSS hacks will break in Web Standards compliant IE7 thus making most CSS books published in the last few years outdated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4770,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/4770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}