I know some might not think you have a point James, but I do, esp in PDF format (I just hate PDF's). $9.00 or £6 seems very steep when all you have to do is go to W3schools and learn what you need to know for nothing.

CC is still a great company though, despite the odd quirk, which you find anywhere.
NB

Do you think we should then create these PDF's and offer them free of charge? What price would you think they should be at to make it valuable to you?

Some users also have a problem with reading resources found only online and instead they like to have hard-copy. That is not as always easy to do with an online resource.

I can tell you by the sales so far, people don't seem to have much of a problem with a $9 price tag.

I personally don't see anything wrong with it. I've read it and it's quite interesting and helpful. I don't think $9.00 is a bad price at all for all the work it takes to put these together, it's not like they just copied and pasted someone else's work into a PDF.

Someone had to take the time to research the 2 languages, learn them, write it all up, get all the screenshot images and put it together nicely, create a nice table of contents, create all the anchor links to work correctly, and I'm betting they had to get paid as an employee to do so which means the company had to pay to have it created.

Why in the world would you expect it to be free or for less money? You're very free to go spend the 30 to 60 bux for the hard cover books, I myself intend to do just that even though I have this CC one as there will be a lot to be learned as it's all published. But, why so much aggravation about this? All companies create things to sell, that's the whole idea behind them being in business, so what's the issue on this really?

I have it, I printed it out and now have a hard copy and a virtual copy that I can read on my computer or on my iPod which I just put it on. All that for $9.00 is pretty good.

I can for sure tell you that if you want a normal hard copy book you're going to spend 30 to 60 bux for it, AND if you want a PDF copy you'll spend ANOTHER 20 bux or more for it (many charge 29.99) so for $9.00 you have a primer to a very cool new system, and not just 1 system, but 2! HTML5 "and" CSS3 which I think is quite a bargain for the price!

$9 is cheap, I bought 3 of the $9 PDF's and the "My Website Is Better Than Yours" PDF.

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Scott, have you actually gotten the characters in those Japanese, Farsi and Chinese page samples to display correctly in the HTML Editor you're using?

To be honest, I have not tried as I don't have those language libraries installed under Windows. It wouldn't surprise me though if multi-byte characters still don't work.

Scott
My old issue with Portuguese characters disappeared using <meta charset="iso-8859-1"> using both HTML5 or HTML 4.1

Regards

They don't, but I don't have the libraries installed, just the unicode fonts which are there by default. Everything looks fine in notepad and browsers. At any rate, you should still check into the problem I mentioned regarding the editor not recognizing the BOM and displaying it as "?".

What is a BOM?