HTML5 Mastery: Semantics, Standards, and Styling
Copyright 2011 by Anselm Bradford and Paul Haine
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President and Publisher: Paul Manning | Copy Editor: Kim Wimpsett |
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To my parents, Harda and Stuart, for showing me that tornadoes and gusty winds
can both describe the same storm.
Anselm Bradford
Contents at a Glance
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About the Authors
Anselm Bradford is a lecturer in digital media at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in New Zealand, where he researches interactive media, web media, and visual communication. His experience with Internet-related development stretches back to 1996, when he hand-coded his first website. He may be found on Twitter @anselmbradford
, and he occasionally blogs at AnselmBradford.com.
Clawing his way from deepest, darkest Somerset, U.K., upon his coming of age, Paul Haine found himself ironically trapped for another six years on the opposite side of the country in deepest, darkest Kent, learning about web standards during the spare weeks between history lectures. Now residing in East Oxford, he spends his days working for an international publishing company, surrounded by a plethora of Apple-branded hardware, Nintendo kitsch, and a truly massive collection of grunge and pixel fonts. Paul also runs his personal blog, JoeBlade.com. He attends to this approximately every six months during the gaps between catching up with his blogroll and refreshing it to begin reading again.