CSS Hacks and Filters

289 Pages·2005·6.92 MB·English

by  Joseph W. Lowery

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CSS Hacks and Filters
Making Cascading
Style Sheets Work
Joseph Lowery
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CSS Hacks and Filters
Making Cascading
Style Sheets Work
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CSS Hacks and Filters
Making Cascading
Style Sheets Work
Joseph Lowery
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CSS Hacks and Filters:Making Cascading Style Sheets Work
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Lowery,Joseph (Joseph W.)
CSS hacks and filters / Joseph Lowery.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7645-7985-1 (paper/website)
1. Web sites--Design.2. Computer graphics.3. Cascading style sheets. I. Title.
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About the Author
Joseph Loweryis the author of the Dreamweaver MX 2004 Bible(Indianapolis,IN,Wiley
Publishing,2004) and the Fireworks MX Bible(Indianapolis,IN:Wiley Publishing,2002),
aswell as Design and Deploy(San Francisco:Macromedia Press,2004) and Joseph Lowery’s
Beyond Dreamweaver (Berkeley,CA:New Riders Press,2002).In recent years,he co-authored
Dreamweaver MX 2004 Web Application Recipes(Berkeley,CA:New Riders Press,2003) with
Eric Ott and the Dreamweaver MX Killer Tipsbook (Berkeley,CA:New Riders Press,2003)
with Angela Buraglia.His books are international bestsellers,having sold more than 400,000
copies worldwide in nine different languages.As a programmer,he has developed numerous
extensions for the Dreamweaver community,both free and commercial,including FlashBang!
and Deva Tools for Dreamweaver.He also has presented at MacDesign in Chicago,Seybold in
both Boston and San Francisco,and Macromedia MAX conferences in the U.S.and Europe.
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To the hundreds ofCSS explorers who
have charted this rough new terrain
with unflinching vigilance
and unwavering selflessness.