The book is very weak in content and has absolutely no practical examples. I'm not an expert in XML, so I won't give a technical estimate, but with new technology like XML one should not only show his favorable opinion, but provide examples to prove it's value. Title is also very misleading - in fact you've got a combination of 'appreciating the need of xml' and XML short description.

I consider myself an intermidate web designer who likes to hand code pages.I took a chance purchasing this cd-rom and paid the price. The information was shallow and uninformative. It provided no insight into HTML elements, only simple examples. Experienced users would find it useless. Novices will find it confusing. Save you money and time, get a real reference.

Well, what can I say? I was hoping for a lot more based on the price of this CD. The CD contains 3.82 MB of info, that's it. DHTML examples? only 3. CSS examples? Only the product itself. The format is a welcome screen that takes you to 5 different options, which are nothing more than a table of contents. It lists attributes and tags in HTML 4 and CSS level2, with a VERY LIMITED example scope for each attribute.

On the plus side: relatively elegant layout. It does tell you what CSS works with what versions of browsers. On the negative side: it doesn't do the same for HTML. Bottom line? A $3.95 2-page reference chart can get you the exact same information cheaper and quicker. Stick to paper-based products.

Unfortunately, 'Netscape Navigator Gold' by Bryan Pfaffenberger (1997) is just one like many other worthless books, - just wasting of time to read.
The largest part of this book - just explanation of Netscape menu commands (you can find out all this stuff without reading the book), describing a lot of popular web-pages (for example, syntax and menu commands of Yahoo, AltaVista, etc., - but this information is getting old so fast!!!), and telling some well known facts.
Also, there are some shareware programs, included on the CD-ROM disc, but you can always find them on the Net (newer versions!) And sometimes he hides some nice sides of Netscape Navigator in order to promote these programs (I am just wondering, why?), like saving the whole web-page content with all the graphic files on your HDD - he offers to pay for some third-patry program instead!
Sorry, if I am too angry, but buy this book - and you will be anger than me :(