- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 14:06:24 -0800
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Today I've been skimming over the new book by Molly Holzschlag, "Special Edition Using XHTML", and it looks great to me. But, I am biased. I contributed two chapters to this book and I tech edited most of it, so I feel a sense of, hm, not quite "parental pride", maybe "proud uncle". Besides the fact that I think Molly is a good, clear writer who produces very readable and enjoyable books on web design, I am also pleased with the pervasive emphasis on accessibility and sound principles of web design found throughout this book. Usually I cringe when reading web authoring books, but I think this promotes a very sane viewpoint which is compatible with WAI philosophy. (And, hopefully I caught any accidental accessibility omissions in the tech editing process, although it's possible one or two might have slipped through. If you find any missing alt text in the examples, yell at me.) Of the two chapters which I wrote, I'm happiest with the one on XSLT, which provides an introduction to how you can do practical transformations of XHTML. Obviously, it's limited by the scope of the book; the examples are rather trite, but I think they're enough to get web designers thinking about the possibility of using XSLT to effect structural changes. And the nice picture of Edapta's dear departed web page was nice to see in print. I've set up a forwarding link to the book's entry on Amazon.com: http://kynn.com/+seuxhtml Full disclosure: That reference uses my wife's Amazon.com affiliate id, so she may make a few cents if you buy the book that way. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/ Sr. Engineering Project Leader, Reef-Edapta http://www.reef.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ Contributor, Special Edition Using XHTML http://kynn.com/+seuxhtml Unofficial Section 508 Checklist http://kynn.com/+section508
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