My Review of Values, Units, and Colors

Nov 25, 2012 in REVIEWS
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    <strong class="summary">Excellent intro or review</strong>
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    By <strong>Jim Schubert</strong> from <strong>Richmond, VA</strong> on <strong><abbr title="20121125T1200-0800" class="dtreviewed" style="border: none; text-decoration: none;">11/25/2012</abbr></strong>
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    <span class="rating">5</span>out of 5
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    <strong>Pros: </strong>Easy to understand, Helpful examples, Well-written, Concise, Accurate
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    <strong>Best Uses: </strong>Expert, Intermediate, Novice, Student
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    <strong>Describe Yourself: </strong>Developer
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    I am reviewing &#8220;Values, Units, and Colors&#8221; as part of the O&#8217;Reilly Blogger Review program. I have had about a 6 month hiatus from full-time web development, so I thought I&#8217;d be able to offer a somewhat fresh perspective of this book&#8217;s content.<br xmlns:pr="xalan://com.pufferfish.core.beans.xmlbuilders.xsl.Functions" /><br />It&#8217;s a short, quick read. It&#8217;s also well-worth the price. There were quite a few things I didn&#8217;t know (or hadn&#8217;t considered), such as some odd behavior in older versions of Internet Explorer and certain times a value may mean something different depending on the order of values and keywords.
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    I especially loved the explanation of HSL versus RGB. I had always avoided HSL and HSLa, because RGB and RGBa seem more intuitive to me. This book explains the two very well, in a way I think someone more familiar with HSL than RGB would gain an equally better understanding as I have.
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    The book also covers some relative length units which I&#8217;ve never used or seen used (ex, rem, ch).
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    Usually, I&#8217;m not very impressed with short books of this nature. I think it&#8217;s fairly difficult to get *enough* information in so few pages. I think the subject matter in this book is focused enough to cover it quickly and concisely in less than 50 pages. I&#8217;ll admit, I didn&#8217;t expect to say aloud while reading this, &#8220;Huh, now that makes sense.&#8221;
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    I&#8217;d definitely recommend this book to fellow web developers, or anyone interested in tweaking the styles of their own website. I will definitely reread this book in the future.
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