Who You Calling A Jesse?

Over the weekend I sat down and went through Dave Shea’s and Molly Holzschlag’s new book The Zen of CSS Design (which you can get at the UW bookstore). What a great book. It gives some good insight into what is behind the CSS Zen Garden and some design concepts. Really worth a read if you can squeeze it into those end of year budgets ;)

There were a couple things that did stand out while I read it though. The first bit is more of a ‘this is the code in the garden and why’ which has caused a bit of stir in places. One discussion that spilled over into emails to Dave Shea caused him to post a response on his web site about the AAA statement on the Zen Garden. Another one, The Zen of Disinformation brings to light some issues with the accuracy of some parts of the book. Molly and Dave have comments in the thread of that article. Interesting thread.

Even guru’s make mistakes and they really shouldn’t be tarnished too much for it… the book is about the Zen Garden and design, for that it is really good book. Just be sure to grab Web Standards Solutions or Zeldman’s Designing with Web Standards (both should be in the bookstore here) if you are looking for more accurate and extensive information on web standards ;)