Pro HTML5 and CSS3 Design Patterns (Expert's Voice in Web Development) 1st ed. Edition

Basically this book has HTML5 and CSS3 in the title to get people to buy it. The patterns described are not for just HTML5 and CSS3, they are basic patterns for HTML and CSS, period. There are a couple of minor examples to justify the mention of HTML5 and CSS3, but this book is not worth the money. Think of it as a giant collection of HTML and CSS recipeies, or W3C spec trivia.For instance there are sections on indenting text, or using an offset, collapsing borders on a table... This book is not for a PRO. If you are a PRO then you learned this stuff in your first year.If you are brand new to web development then this book will help you, if not for the basics but also the positioning section. That is why I didn't give this book a 1 star.If you know what your doing, or you are looking for a good book on HTML5 or CSS3 then this is NOT the book for you. The title uses those words to suck people into buying the book, buzzword bingo. Disappointed in Apress for this one.

Excellent and well thought out content. I look forward to learning it all.One thing I noticed though, the screen shots are terribly low resolution. Something must have gone wrong at the printers because all the screen shots - and there is one on every page - are grainy.So, paper quality A+, content A+, screenshot resolution D-.I wonder if I can send it back to Apress and get a correctly printed copy :(

Images in this book are enlarged unproportionally and too many bold text. I can't even see it clearly. It is very difficult to read.

I agree with Christian. The content is top notch but the problem/ solution sections are, well problematic. I wonder what the reason was to include jpegs for text? This is serious Kindle FAIL.Considering getting my money back for an Apress PDF.This is sad as my copy of the first CSS Design Pattern book fell apart because I used it so much ... and that was a digital PDF, btw ;)

I think the book is informative, however, I found enough typos and misformatings to detract from my reading experience. Definitely a good buy, but buyer be warned! I wish this was a digital copy that could be corrected!

Over the years I've used many HTMLx and CSSx books and if I had to rate them overall I would give them 3 stars. The problem with most of them is that the author(s) limit their focus to a particular issue. I'm not going to pick on any one in particular, but they generally make a big deal out of a few topics and seem to imply that they've covered everything of interest, when they've covered what interests them.This book focuses on HTML and CSS up to and including HTML5 and CSS3. This book is not meant to be read like a novel, but if you need a deep understanding of a particular issue, you will find it here.