On Jul 25, 2007, at 8:18 PM, Mitchell Waite wrote:
Gosh the author speaks!
Yes, I do. Usually, I speak too much. ;-)
Having authored about 25 computer books on programming and
published about 200 (www.mitchwaite.com), I find Learning jQuery a
real treasure. The way you guys tell the store is very well thought
out, and shows an immense understanding of the person coming to
jQuery. You go out of your way to help understand what makes it so
different.
Mitch, thanks a lot for the feedback on the book. I'm thrilled to
know that you're enjoying it. I checked out your site when you first
made an appearance on this list and ... Wow! You are prolific! And a
real pioneer. Very impressive.
I just hit chapter 4 page 67 were you introduce css positioning so
I can being to see the use of styles better. The link on page 67 is
broken.
Sorry about that! They must have shifted their site around since we
last checked. Anyway, here is a working link:
http://www.wpdfd.com/issues/78/absolutely_relative/
Is there source code for the examples anywhere. It would be so
helpful to be able to run each example and modify it.
Yes, you can grab the source download or post errata at the
publisher's website:
http://www.packtpub.com/support/book/jQuery
Also, we threw everything onto http://book.learningjquery.com/ in
case you want to just see everything in action. I just created a
forum there, too, in case someone stumbles upon the site and wants to
provide some feedback, etc.: http://book.learningjquery.com/forums/
My only quibble and this is more the publisher in me, is that the
book suffers on the illustration end. I think there are a lot of
places where a drawing or two would have hammered the idea home.
Excellent point. Also, as has been discussed in another thread, some
of the pictures in the first few chapters didn't translate to
grayscale very well at all.
Thanks again for the comments!
Karl
