Jon Raasch - Smashing WebKit

Smashing WebKit

Jon Raasch

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About the Author

Jon Raasch is a freelance web developer specializing in frontend engineering with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. A regular contributor to Smashing Magazine, he also writes on his personal blog at http://jonraasch.com/.

Jon Raasch built his first website when he was 14. It was hosted on GeoCities and was particularly terrible. Now he builds cutting-edge websites and web-based applications using modern technologies. He is passionate about web standards, frontend performance and user-experience design.

Formerly based in Portland, OR, Jon now travels the world working remotely (with a particular fondness for Berlin, Germany).

Follow him on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jonraasch.

Acknowledgments

Id like to thank Paul Irish for his suggestions for the performance chapter, and Estelle Weyl for her CSS-only iOS interface.

Otherwise, thanks to all the people who write tutorials, give talks on frontend development and release open-source software: Jonathan Snook, Stoyan Stefanov, Remy Sharp, Nicholas Zakas, David DeSandro, Nicole Sullivan, Peter-Paul Koch, Luke Wroblewski, Chris Coyier, Zoe Gillenwater, Christian Heilmann, Kyle Simpson, Steve Souders, Stephanie Rewis, Jacob Gube, Mathias Bynens, Bruce Lawson, Ethan Marcotte, Jan Lehnardt, Jed Schmidt, Nicolas Gallagher, Robert Nyman, Jake Archibald, Lea Verou, Ben Alman, David Kaneda and all the others Im forgetting.

Id also like to thank the Smashing Magazine team and Vitaly Friedman, as well as the editors at Wiley, especially Sydney Argenta and Steven Hoober. Finally, Id like to thank Kate Knappett for looking over Chapters 3 and 4.