[UPHPU] VisiBone "cheat sheets"

[Mac Newbold]

I don't know how many of you have seen these before. A guy in Maine puts 
them together, and sells them under a company named VisiBone.

http://www.visibone.com/
http://www.visibone.com/catalog/

One of the guys in our office has the Browser Book, and I can highly 
recommend it. (His is the laminated version, and I'd probably get that one 
if it were me, since it is more durable and will be used frequently.) The 
Card Collection is the one I'd probably get if I were buying one, since it 
has all the same stuff but a little denser and less expensively. There's a 
comparison of the two here:

http://www.visibone.com/products/ccvbb.html

If you want to see what they cover, that link has links to full-size JPG 
photos of the pages, close enough to be readable, so you can see what they 
say. In a nutshell, it is a reference for colors, fonts, special 
characters, XHTML, CSS, SSI, URLs, XML w/XHTML, JavaScript, DOM, and JS 
Regular Expressions. It has color coding that indicates what browsers 
support each item, and notes that point out gotchas, etc. to watch for. I 
don't recall ever finding a mistake in it, either.

Last time I mentioned these, there was some interest in doing a group 
purchase and seeing if we can get a user group discount. I have sent him a 
message to ask about the possibility of a discount above those he already 
offers, found here:

http://www.visibone.com/catalog/discounts.php

Even with just those, if we ordered about 10 items together, we'd probably 
qualify for the 30% off discount, which would knock $6-16 off the price of 
each product, depending which one you bought. If we had 15-20 items 
between us, we'd probably get 35-40% off. If he replies and says he can 
get us a better discount as a group, I'll let everyone know.

I'd be willing to make the purchase and arrange for distribution if there 
are enough people interested. Please pass this along to anyone else 
locally who might be interested in our group purchase - the discounts are 
based on dollar volume, not on particular items or quantites, so anything 
he sells would be fair game.

Thanks,
Mac

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