At SXSW last week, I read Chapter 3, “The Myths of CSS”, from my forthcoming book Speaking In Styles, and then did a book signing for CSS, DHTML, & Ajax  at the Barnes & Noble booth. It was an interesting session, where I talked to several nice people, and even signed copy of my book for someone from Microsoft (hopefully he won’t be returning it).

SXSW posted an audio recording of my reading on their site and I am happy to re-present it here.

Speaking in Styles: A CSS Primer for Web Designers

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I had a great time at SXSW 2009. Met a lot of great people, heard a lot of great ideas, and ate a lot of great food. While I was there, I did a quick interview with Gary-Paul of New Riders about my upcoming book, Speaking In Styles, although it was not the most flattering of angles:

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One of the most frustrating issues Web designers have to deal with on the Mac is how to test their designs in Internet Explorer 6, which is still very popular and only available in Windows. One great and inexpensive solution is a program called Crossover, which allows you to run many Windows applications directly on your Mac desktop, without having to own or install Windows on your machine. Currently, it does not support Internet Explorer 7 or 8, which is a shame, but these two browsers have fewer inconsistencies than their predecessor.

codeweavers.com/products/cxmac

[NOTE: This is an excerpt from Speaking in Styles: A CSS Primer for Web Designers, coming out later this year.]

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