WEB STANDARDS CREATIVITY

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To all of my friends at World Online who are among the
smartest people I’ve ever met and have given me the
opportunity to do what I love to do every day instead of
“going to work.”
To my girlfriend Michelle, who never gets frustrated with
all the time I spend working on projects like this instead
of tending to her. I love you, Meesh.
To my entire family, especially my mom and dad, who
supported me in countless ways instead of balking when I
dropped out of college to pursue “this Internet thing.”
I love you guys more than I could ever possibly explain.
To my incredible daughter Haley, who is the reason I do
everything I do.
And of course to you, for reading.
Ian Lloyd
Thanks to all the people who commented on my blog
about the original proof-of-concept that I put together,
and particularly to those who suggested improvements
and fine-tuning. Thanks also to beer and junk TV, which
always have the uncanny ability of compressing a reasonable
time scale for writing into the usual last-minute
panic. But I wouldn’t have it any other way!
Dan Rubin
Many thanks to Lee Hammond and Geffen/Universal
Media for giving the OK to use this project as a case study
(not to mention hiring me to do it in the first place), and
for being such a wonderful client to begin with. Thanks
are also due to Lifehouse and the band’s management, to
Mike Rundle (aka “phark”) for the image replacement
technique I use every day, and to Mike Davidson, Shawn
Inman, Tomas Jogin, and Mark Wubben (collectively “The
sIFR Gang”) for creating and improving the only way to
accurately control live text rendering on sites built with
Web Standards.
To Chris Mills and the Apress/friends of ED team, I leave
my—wait, wrong document—thanks for the late and ohso-sleepless
nights; the complimentary cricket bat made it
all worthwhile. Special thanks to Kristina Horst for making
me look astonishingly dashing in my headshot. Oh, and
let’s not forget good old mum and dad; my brother Alex
for the constant support he provides (in and out of the
office); and, of course, Larry, the lizard who lives in my
closet, for his completely random but curiously comforting
and almost omniscient presence and countenance.