[UPHPU] VisiBone "cheat sheets"

[Mac Newbold]

Today at 3:11pm, Walt Haas said:

> Does the browser book include an encyclopedic list of browser bugs?
> A while ago I managed to write some XHTML that passed the W3C test
> with flying colors, and caused Safari 1.0.3 to crash whenever the user
> clicked on a certain field in a form.  On the same site, another page
> caused MSIE to choke and show ONLY the <input ...> fields, not any of
> the rest of the page.
>
> Knowing the location of the mines in the browser minefield would be a
> lot more valuable than a handy reference to the standard that few of
> them actually conform to.

Absolutely. That is what I've found so useful about this one. It isn't 
just a doc of the spec, but a combined doc that shows what browsers 
implement what, including the MSIE-only non-standard stuff. It tells you 
what versions of MSIE, Netcape/Mozilla/Firefox, Opera, Safari, and 
Konqueror support each item, and whether or not it is part of the 
standard. They highlight sutff that isn't supported by IE for the Mac or 
by Netscape on the Mac, as well as bugs within each of the browsers or 
where one of them handles it differently than the others.

See this page for examples:

http://www.visibone.com/products/bbk16-_850.jpg

These show the various markings in use:

http://www.visibone.com/products/bbk4-5_850.jpg
http://www.visibone.com/products/bbk6-7_850.jpg

While I'm at it, I'll highlight the one and only content difference 
between the Card Collection (less expensive, smaller print, more densely 
packed, 10 pages) and the Browser Book (costs more, larger print, 16 
pages). The Card Collection has "a big annotated HTML/CSS example page" 
that is not in the Browser Book:

http://www.visibone.com/html/hcrd1_850.jpg

Yes, the cheaper and shorter one has more content than the big one. The 
big one is still great though, and it's the one I've used. And he says 
that they're both equally up to date, and both on 8.5"x11" sheets, spiral 
bound.

One of the guys that works here had one from before he started, and since 
then we've all started borrowing it from his desk from time to time when 
we run into stubborn problems or w3schools isn't giving us what we want. 
I haven't yet found anything on the web that compiles the compatibility 
information that these have.

Here's another thought: you could probably try to get work to purchase 
them for you. If we do a group order, I'll probably have work get at least 
2-3 more to have here at the office, or maybe get 4 so there's one per 
desk.

He's also considering doing an SQL book in a similar fashion. If you 
wander around his site for a while, you'll see the current standings in 
the voting. (He lists 5 potential projects with their time frames 
(anywhere from 3-6 months on most) and lets people vote for the ones 
they'd most like to see.) I would love to have a reference that shows me 
all the MySQL, MSSQL, PGSQL, SQLite, etc. quirks in a nice compact fashion 
like this.

Thanks,
Mac

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