ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to acknowledge Chris Mills for helping get this project started and Clay Andres for taking over and driving things forward after Chris's departure; Kylie Johnston, without whom this book would have earned me my procrastination badge of honor; Steve Smith, Meitar Moscovitz, and Joe Lewis for helping fill in my technical deficiencies; and Kim Wimpsett and Liz Berry for their patience in answering my questions during the production process.

Thanks to my wonderful wife, Rachel, for giving me the time to write, and to my kids, Reilly and Parker, for keeping the noise level to a dull roar (some of the time). Thanks also to my parents: my mom, Cynthia, for the writing genes, and my father, Rick, for that "get it done" attitude. I'm not sure which was used more on this project.

Jonathan Lane

First of all, I'd like to acknowledge the web standards giants who came before me, such as Eric Meyer, Molly Holzschlag, Peter-Paul Koch, Jeffrey Zeldman, and others too numerous to mention, without whom I'd have no shoulders to stand on. I hope my contributions to this book have added some real value to the work they produced before me.

I also want to thank all the people who worked with me on this book: my coauthors and technical reviewers, Jonathan Lane and Joe Lewis, for their very astute observations and suggestions while I was drafting my contributions; the staff at Apress/friends of ED (including but certainly not limited to) Kylie Johnston, Kim Wimpsett, and Liz Berry for their efforts, and very especially Clay Andres, my editor. Clay not only set me the challenge of turning what was originally intended to be a relatively small review task into several months of hard work but, more important, gave me the opportunity to do so in the first place.

Thanks also to the wonderful people with whom I work on website projects every day—the staff of Digital Eskimo in Sydney, Australia, for allowing me to take the time off I needed to focus on this work. Even more important, thanks for providing a really great working environment where I can feel like I'm doing the things I want to do instead of the things I need to do to earn a living.

I would also like to thank my girlfriend, Sara Hames, the writer. Not only does she deserve thanks for helping proofread all of my work before the copy editor saw any of it and for not being upset with me in spite of getting published before her, but also for her immense support and encouragement in many more important ways than words can ever describe.

Finally, I'd like to thank my family for their support years before I knew I'd ever write a book: my brother, Shir, for being the single most resilient, methodical, and authentic person I know; my mom, Rina, for teaching my brother and I how to be the stalwart people we are (whether we make the choices she'd prefer we make or not); and my father, without whose inspiration, insight, and guidance I may never have found the path that led me to where I want to be today.

Meitar Moscovitz

I would like to extend my thanks to the following people:

To Michael Alderete, for introducing me to the idea of a blog so long ago.

To Stephanie Sullivan and Molly Holzschlag, for their sage advice on the matter of writing, among other things.

To Gabriel García Márquez, for writing One Hundred Years of Solitude, and to Chris Haag, for giving me a copy.

To Don Palma, for asking me why I wasn't practicing.

To my coauthors and the team at Apress/friends of ED for making this such a positive experience.

And most of all, to Yingwen, because you mean the world to me.

Joseph R. Lewis