Comments on: Smashing CSS

By: Colin 't Hart

Colin 't Hart — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:38:34 +0000

This is a great book, it’s really helping me understand the nitty gritty of how CSS works and how to achieve the looks I want (or rather, emulate the designer’s PDF that I’ve been tasked with copying…)

I sense that in a few places you’ve restrained from giving more opinion; please don’t hold back. But maybe I just need to pick up one of your other books?

By: Robert Drózd

Robert Drózd — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:33:50 +0000

I’ve just bought the Kindle edition and it has good, extensive TOC.

The “chapter” marks are also present, though they are pretty useless – they do not allow navigating between chapters but between three parts of the book.

By: Eliot Sykes

Eliot Sykes — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:51:37 +0000

Eric, disappointingly no TOC on the Kindle version on Android just bought from Amazon.co.uk

By: Piotr Ingling

Piotr Ingling — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:58:25 +0000

Finally got it :) Great book! But after reading it I have one serious remark to the back cover (and the description at Wiley’s site) – it says:

“… and CSS3 techniques with jQuery …”
“… styling data tables with jQuery …”
“… using jQuery to do CSS3 selections …”

yet in the book itself the name “jQuery” appears once, only to mark its existence. Chapter on tables says indeed that the styling can be done via script instead of manual calculations but there’s not a single jQuery (or any other JS) script there.

By: Sonya

Sonya — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:21:15 +0000

I just contacted Wiley C.S. who said “We are checking with our IT department as to why this is not showing to order on our website. I hope to have this resolved for you within the next 2 days”

Fingers crossed :)

By: Philip

Philip — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 07:22:38 +0000

This is really frustrating. I just want a PDF of this book. I don’t see any technical reason for it taking so long.

By: randy

randy — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:18:04 +0000

awesome, awesome book! my css knowledge is mostly from circa 2002, so this is just what i need to get up to speed.

i did find a typo in it, on p. 83 at the bottom of the page, “absolutely positioned it, and then thrww it way off-screen.”

By: AlastairC

AlastairC — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:36:23 +0000

The UK kindle version is available to:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Smashing-CSS-Professional-Techniques-Modern/dp/B004D4Y2TO/

I was worried that it would take time for the digital version to migrate, it’s happened before ( http://twitter.com/alastc/status/26303350725 ) , but this time I’ll be reading it on my iPad this evening :)

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:09:35 +0000

Lowell, I can't find a (legal) PDF anywhere either. The various ebook versions have been released by Wiley to ebook distribution channels, so it's up to distributors and vendors to make it available. Unfortunately the publisher, at this point, can't make it happen any faster than I can. I did finally find the Nook version, so I'll be updating the post with links in a moment. Also, Michael, the publisher is looking into the Kindle TOC and linking problems and hope to get it corrected. Thanks again for letting me know about it!

By: Lowell

Lowell — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 03:21:21 +0000

Where can I find a pdf of this book? Eric, your comments from 2 weeks ago say ‘within a week’ but I can’t find the pdf online anywhere.

By: Christoph

Christoph — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:49:15 +0000

Just read your book after having read two other just recently published books around CSS(3) – really, your book beats all others when it comes to “bang for the buck” – the information density is just awesome.
Great job!

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:56:10 +0000

Hey, Guy—send your corrections to me so I can confirm them and pass them on to Wiley through my own channels. Thanks for applying your eagle eyes to the text! Bertillo, if you could also send me the mistakes you noticed, I'll see what I can do about fixing them. Thanks! Michael, that is awful. I'll ask my editor about why that might be and if there's any way to fix it for both existing and future readers. Thanks for the heads-up! Thanks for the kind words, everyone!

By: Guy K. Haas

Guy K. Haas — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 06:33:06 +0000

Hey, Eric–

I’m lovin’ the new “Smashing” book, but some typos jumped out at me. When I went to the Wiley pages to see about reporting typos, it seemed like a halacious amount of form-completion was demanded. Some of these are just spelling issues (yes, it’s a word; no it’s not the one you meant) or keystroke errors. Please tell me where to go to report them?

By: Michael N.

Michael N. — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:11:16 +0000

Sorry, another rant about the Kindle edition: URLs aren’t clickable in the Kindle app on iPad, you have to go the extra mile to google for them after highlighting
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mac/5211589976/

I already put that as feedback on the amazon product page for your book, together with the previous comment about the TOC.

But now I am going to read and enjoy the book as I did with your previous ones!

By: Michael N.

Michael N. — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:41:10 +0000

Really looking forward to reading it, just bought the Kindle edition.

It is a bit odd though that the kindle version doesn’t let you navigate to the table of contents, at least not on iPad Kindle app, see here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mac/5211542372/