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Book Review: Peter Gasston’s The Modern Web

June 4, 2013September 23, 2014
Book: The Modern Web

tl;dr: Peter Gasston’s The Modern Web is a matter-of-fact compendium of essentially all of the relevant current (and some future) front-end web technologies. It’s hard to know something about everything, and it’s that fact that makes this book useful for designers and developers of all skill levels. Peter Gasston knows a lot of stuff. In […]

Posted in Book Review, browsers, CSS, Layout, Web Standards

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