Posted by Neredbojias on 10/07/05 07:47

With neither quill nor qualm, Stan McCann quothed:

> 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.

Dave Raggett of w3c infamy has an html book out, although I dunno how
good it is - having not read it. I would asssssssssssume, however, that
it's up-to-date.

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Neredbojias
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