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Posted by <h_tamera on 10/07/05 22:28
"Stan McCann" <me@stanmccann.us> wrote in message
news:Xns96E7CAE3CF501stanmccann@216.234.192.142...
> Hello all,
>
> I teach web development courses at the local community college. For my
> beginning HTML course, I have been using "HTML For The World Wide Web
> with XHTML and CSS" by Elizabeth Castro. I am looking for a different
> book; one that instructs HTML 4.01 strict rather than transitional; one
> that does not mention a bunch of deprecated elements. Anyone know of
> such a book? So far, every book I've looked at seems to recommend the
> use of transitional rather than strictif they mention a doctype at all.
> I don't understand why it is so difficult to find a book to teach
> *modern* methods instead of transitional methods when "transition" is
> long past. I teach that all new pages should be coded strictly to the
> W3C recommendation. It's getting tiresome having to unteach much of
> what the textbook offers.
>
> Maybe I'm going to have to write one? Anyone interested in co-
> authoring?
>
> For the record. This group, ciwah and ciwas are great resources for my
> classes. Thanks to all, especially the regulars that are so helpful to
> so many. I don't post a lot, but I sure find some good reading in
> these groups. Thanks.
Stan,
I used "web design & Development using XHTML". I it is both usefull and
informative. I have not looked at it in quite a while but I would reccomend
you taking a look at it. Here is the URL for the publisher:
http://www.fbeedle.com/57-0.html
Hope this helps.
Jon
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