Contributors

Tantek Çelik

Tantek Çelik contributed Appendix E, Microformats: Extending (X)HTML. He is also a Lead Technical Editor for this book. His bio is listed on the Technical Reviewers page.

Derek Featherstone

Derek is a well-known instructor, speaker, and developer with expertise in web accessibility consulting and training. He advises many government agencies, educational institutions, and private sector companies, providing them with expert accessibility testing, and review and recommendations for improving the accessibility of their web sites to all people. As a member of the Web Standards Project (http://webstandards.org), Derek serves on two task forces: Accessibility/Assistive Devices and DOM Scripting. He is a dedicated advocate for standards that ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all. Derek wrote Chapter 5, Accessibility.

Aaron Gustafson

Aaron Gustafson has been working on the Web since 1996, plying his trade for many top companies including Delta Airlines, Gartner, IBM, Konica Minolta, and the U.S. EPA. He is an advocate for web standards and open source languages, often writing on those topics and more for A List Apart, Digital Web Magazine, and on his blog, http://easy-reader.net. When not behind a desk, he can sometimes be found publicly preaching the web standards gospel alongside Molly E. Holzschlag. He and his wife, Kelly, reside in Connecticut, where he works as Sr. Web Designer/Developer for Cronin and Company. Aaron wrote Chapter 25, Managing Browser Bugs: Workarounds, Hacks, and Filters, Chapter 26, Introduction to JavaScript, and Chapter 27, DOM Scripting.

Todd Marks

Todd Marks is an avid developer, designer, instructor, author, and manager of information display technologies. In 2002, Todd founded MindGrub Technologies, LLC where he created Flash information display systems for clients such as Oracle, Zurich, and ARINC. Todd currently works as a Products Manager for the mediaEdge division of Exceptional Software, where he oversees development of Media Edge’s training applications. Todd is a Macromedia Certified Developer, Designer, and Subject Matter Expert and has written and contributed to several books including Flash MX Video (Peer Information), Beginning Dreamweaver MX 2004 (Wrox), Advanced PHP for Flash MX (Glasshaus), Flash MX Most Wanted Components (Friends of Ed), and other Dreamweaver and Flash-related titles. Todd wrote Chapter 35, The Flash Platform.

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