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HTML Pocket Reference (2nd Edition)
Format: Paperback
Author: Jennifer Niederst
ReleaseDate: 01 January, 2002
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Rating:
perfect, complete 
It contains everything and should replace all non-design-oriented HTML books. This is what other O'Reilly Pocket References should be.
Relax, IMG is only missing from the first printing
(I asked O'Reilly. FYI: the IMG tag is only missing from the first printing.) Indeed, a recent copy of the book is not missing it anymore. (Back of the title page, bottom right corner has a date: [11/04]. My other copy, which is missing IMG, has [6/02] in this spot. ) A quick check shows that they have fixed some, but not all, of the errata (http://www. oreilly. com/catalog/htmlpr2/errata/).
But this book is still totally worth having. It's small enough to leave lying around the desktop, where its big brother (Definitive Guide) would get in the way (not to mention distort gravity from its sheer mass). If you're reading this review, you obviously feel you could use a quick reference to HTML. This is it.
They lowered the price, too: These things used to cost 12. 95. Now, 9. 95. "Buy It Now!".
so-so (buggy) 
But this one seems poorly debugged. I am generally a fan of Pocket References. One example is claiming "align" is deprecated for <td>. Turns out, this bug has made it onto the Errata page for the book
http://www. oreilly. com/catalog/htmlpr2/errata/ ,
but only under "Unconfirmed error reports and comments from readers. " If you write a buggy book, at least do the work to confirm bugs and fix them in new printings!.
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