Gaurav Gupta - Mastering HTML5 Forms

Gaurav Gupta is a budding, young IT professional with a large amount of exposure working on web and cross-platform application development. He is a versatile developer and is always keen to learn new technologies that are updated in this domain. His passion for his work makes him stand apart from other developers.

A graduate in Computer Science, he currently works for a reputed CMMI Level 5 company and has developed several web and mobile applications for internal use.

Gaurav is a native of Chandigarh, India, and he currently lives in Pune, India.

First of all I would like to thank the almighty and my family, who have always guided me to walk on the right path in life. I acknowledge, with a deep sense of gratitude and most sincere appreciation, the valuable guidance and unfailing encouragement rendered to me by Mr. Arjun Gupta. I would like to thank him for his proficient, enthusiastic guidance, useful encouragement, and immense help.

I would also like to thank Miss. Sulek Shrikrishna Mulay for being an amazing teacher and guide and for taking pains to technically review this book.

I wish to extend my sincere gratitude to Aurita, Yogesh, and Joel from Packt Publishing for their guidance and valuable suggestions, which proved extremely useful and helpful in the completion of this book.My heartfelt gratitude and indebtedness goes to all those people in my life who gave me constructive criticism, as it contributed directly or indirectly in a significant way towards the completion of this book. My special thanks goes to my friend Raghav and my colleagues, especially Vikas, Shreshtha, Arup, Abhishek, and Sameer, for their support and encouragement, which has been a constant source of assurance, guidance, strength, and inspection to me.

Errietta Kostala is a web developer who is currently studying at the University of Huddersfield in the UK. Having worked on several websites and applications in the past few years and having been actively contributing to open source software, Errietta has a vast background in both client-side and server-side web programming languages.

I would like to thank the author and publishers for giving me the opportunity to review this book. In addition to this, I would like to thank my University and the open source community for giving me the knowledge and experience needed to do this.

Sulek Shrikrishna Mulay is a BE in Information Technology. She has around 8 years of experience in the IT industry. She currently works for a reputed CMMI Level 5 company.

She has technical expertise in Java/J2EE (Struts Framework) and cross-platform applications (Android/iOS) with HTML5/jQuery/JavaScript/jQueryMobile/Sencha Touch/Phonegap (Cordova) technologies.

She has also received many awards for technical expertise and extracurricular activities.

Sulek is a native of Solapur, Maharashtra, India, and currently lives in Pune, India.

I would like to thank my parents, Shrikrishna D Mulay and Nutan S Mulay, for their immense support. I also want to thank my sister Sneha Mulay and my brother Harshwardhan Mulay for always being there for me.