From shecken at cs.newcastle.edu.au Tue May 23 19:50:24 2000 From: shecken at cs.newcastle.edu.au (Stewart Heckenberg) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:59:50 2004 Subject: O'REILLY stuff Message-ID: Heya peoples, I received in the mail a catalogue and discount ad for each member of the Central Coast Perl Mongers. What would be the best way to get these out to each of you (supposing you want them)? O'REILLY make really cool books for all manner of computer stuff. I recommend especially their books about Perl. Visit www.oreilly.com to check them out. Cheers, Stewart central-coast-pm-list From stewart.heckenberg at studentmail.newcastle.edu.au Tue May 23 20:55:30 2000 From: stewart.heckenberg at studentmail.newcastle.edu.au (Stewart Heckenberg) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:59:50 2004 Subject: Win a Pass to O'Reilly Convention (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 16:47:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Denise Olliffe To: stewart@central-coast.pm.org Subject: Win a Pass to O'Reilly Convention ----------------------------------------------------- WIN A PASS TO: O'REILLY OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE CONVENTION AND PERL CONFERENCE 4.0 ----------------------------------------------------- Enter our Raffle and win one of two Conference Session Only passes to: O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention and Perl Conference 4.0 July 17-20, 2000, Monterey, CA The lucky winners will be given a two-day Conference Session Only pass -- July 19th and 20th -- valued at $895 (includes daily breakfast, lunch and admission to the O'Reilly Caribbean Jam, evening of July 19th). 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This will allow authors to use CSS with more confidence because one of the biggest barriers to the adoption of CSS has been the fact that browsers handle it inconsistently. Once that problem fades away, so will the reluctance to use it," explains Meyer. "Already, major sites like Amazon.com, CNN.com, and the Internet Movie Database use CSS to enhance their sites. Many other sites are beginning to follow suit-some in small ways, others in big ways. As the new browsers become more widely used, CSS will become a more and more important and necessary part of every web designer's toolbox. Not only that, but the growing popularity of wireless devices means that the Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) is gaining in use. WAP uses CSS to style content which is displayed on wireless devices." Meyer's "Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide" offers a complete, detailed review of CSS1 properties and other aspects of CSS1. Each property is explored individually in detail, with discussions of how each interacts with other properties. "Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide" also shows how to avoid common mistakes in interpretation. This book is the first major title to cover CSS in a way that acknowledges and describes current browser support, instead of simply describing the way things work in theory. "One problem with using CSS is that it's hard to remember how everything works, and in which browsers," says Meyer. "This book was designed to clear up many of those questions". "Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide" offers both advanced and novice web authors a comprehensive guide to implementation of CSS. Eric Meyer's Top Ten CSS Tips is available online at: http://web.oreilly.com/news/csstop10_0500.html Chapter 1, HTML and CSS, from the book is freely available online at: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/css/chapter/ch01.html For more information about the book, including Table of Contents, index, author bio, and samples, see: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/css/ For a cover graphic in jpeg format, go to: ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book_covers/hi-res/1565926226.jpg # # # Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide By Eric A. Meyer 1st Edition May 2000 1-56592-622-6, 496 pages, $34.95 order@oreilly.com 1-800-998-9938 http://www.oreilly.com central-coast-pm-list