On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 09:41:48PM +0100, Peter Duffy wrote:
> On Thu, 2024-08-22 at 09:14 -1000, Joel Roth via Dng wrote:
...
> >
> > I was looking on my bookshelf for the O'Reilly CSS book just
> > now. If I recall correctly, it is around 800 pages. There
> > are many ways to accomplish a task in CSS and it's a
> > challenge to learn a useful subset with uniform coding
> > practices.
> >
>
> I've got the 4th edition of it ("CSS: The Definitive Guide") - it's now
> 1057 pages.

Does it take 1057 pages to define CSS? Or does it take 1057 pages to
show users how to combine relatively few different mechanisms to
achieve results?

-- hendrik

> It covers CSS v3, and includes sizeable chapters on flex
> and grid layouts. Over the last year, I've read most of the book
> several times, and some of it is starting(?) to sink in. One thing
> about this edition (don't know if it was the same in earlier versions)
> is that all the example code is downloadable - which is great, provided
> that one downloads all the examples and then reads the book in
> conjunction with a computer to run them all.
>