ronanmcd's review against another edition
3.0
My review for this is almost exactly what I felt about the HTML5 book from the same series. Its good, for tech info its not great, but to get you excited and give you new ideas, its a great start.
psykobilliethekid's review
5.0
Really great overview for the basics of using CSS3 properties to get a small site going. Will definitely the techniques I learned from this in my new portfolio work. ^_^
iflista's review
5.0
Very short book with simple message - "You can use CSS3 today". Bit outdated but still relevant.
jakemcc's review
4.0
Straight and to the point this book introduces features of CSS3 that are ready for use and gives examples of how to maintain maximum browser capability. Good book for examples of using some of the new features of CSS3. Would recommend to someone who is interested in knowing some common (or what will probably be common) uses of CSS3 with regards to enhancing the user experience.
puzumaki's review
4.0
This is a fantastic overview of subtle CSS enhancements that can be made with currently (as of 2010) supported CSS3 elements, but it does not go into the deep CSS changes being introduced in CSS3. I checked the A Book Apart series, and it does not seem that an updated deeper look at CSS3 has been written yet, and that I find frustrating as layouts should be vastly improved. The book would have been better named "Minor CSS3 Enhancements"; the content is great but not very thorough as a general overview of CSS3 elements isn't even provided. For that, I will have to likely read the more recent A List Apart articles.
mscottfowler's review
5.0
Great stuff...haven't digested it all yet. Gotta put this into practice for sure.
starshaped's review
5.0
LOVED LOVED LOVED this book. I've recently started updating my mad CSS skillz by finally starting to implement some CSS3 into my projects. It's nice to see the neat little things you can use CSS3 for now and how to make your code degrade gracefully for those using browsers not up to the latest standards (IE, I'm looking at you). I've never been disappointed by Dan Cederholm's books and this one's no exception.
jav094's review
4.0
Reading this in 2016 (nearly 2017), the content is undeniably a little dated. That said, you can't beat well-written explanations of complicated technical concepts! CSS Transitions and animations make more sense than they did before the 100-something pages in this little gem.
dandevri's review
3.0
Fun read but a bit outdated by current standards. Not as much background information about how CSS3 came to be opposed to the first HTML5 book which digs deeper into how the spec evolved over time.
mattsheehe's review
4.0
CSS3 is the latest and greatest style sheet specification that, like HTML5, is under development. Its intent is to give web designers more flexibility in their designs. "CSS3 for Web Designers" introduces the basic features of CSS3 and shows us how we can start using it right now, even while gracefully falling back to CSS2 or Javascript solultions for browsers that do not yet support CSS3.
Dan Cederholm provides a number of examples of what's new in CSS3 (drop-shadows, rotation, animation(!), and more) and shows how to use these features today in most modern browsers. Since the CSS3 specification is not official yet, most browsers implement their own version of these features, but Dan also shows us how to implement them for each browser specifically in a way that will upgrade gracefully as more CSS3 features are adopted by their CSS3 attribute names. In many cases, he also provides Javascript fallbacks for much older browsers (such as Internet Explorer 6) that will accomplish nearly the same results.
"CSS3 for Web Designers" is not intended to be a full guide to CSS3. Rather, it serves as an introduction for anyone who hasn't religiously followed the w3c's mailing lists for the past few years. As an introduction to the power of CSS3, this book serves well, and I'd certainly recommend it.
Dan Cederholm provides a number of examples of what's new in CSS3 (drop-shadows, rotation, animation(!), and more) and shows how to use these features today in most modern browsers. Since the CSS3 specification is not official yet, most browsers implement their own version of these features, but Dan also shows us how to implement them for each browser specifically in a way that will upgrade gracefully as more CSS3 features are adopted by their CSS3 attribute names. In many cases, he also provides Javascript fallbacks for much older browsers (such as Internet Explorer 6) that will accomplish nearly the same results.
"CSS3 for Web Designers" is not intended to be a full guide to CSS3. Rather, it serves as an introduction for anyone who hasn't religiously followed the w3c's mailing lists for the past few years. As an introduction to the power of CSS3, this book serves well, and I'd certainly recommend it.
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