HTML 4.0 Sourcebook
(Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
Author(s): Ian S. Graham
ISBN: 0471257249
Publication Date: 04/01/98

Acknowledgments

To my nephews, Cory and Matthew, who will do things with this technology that I cannot possibly imagine. How I envy them!

No book (particularly one as comprehensive as this) is written in a vacuum, and I have many friends to thank for their roles in keeping the vacuum comfortably populated. First, I must thank Kelly Peters, my co–author for Chapter 5. Kelly’s infectious enthusiasm for “all things Web” was a constant reminder that, indeed, this material is of interest to someone other than me. In addition, her perspective—that of a professional webmaster at Canada’s largest Web site—provided a useful counterpoint to my academic experience and sensibilities! Second, I must thank Michael Lee, who researched the material on Web development resources such as link checkers, server log analyzers, and GUI–based imagemap editors. Unfortunately, much of this material did not make it into print—it is instead available on the supporting Web site. And, as far as I am concerned, that makes it as much a part of the book as the page you are now reading!

Many others made contributions for which I am truly grateful. In particular, I would like to thank Norman Wilson, for designing the programs listen.c and backtalk.c, and also for his helpful and concise reviews of chapters from previous editions. John Bradley and Sian Meikle were kind enough to review early drafts of Chapter 4, and their feedback helped improve the chapter enormously. In the same vein, I must thank Steve Rapaport, who proofread an early version of Chapter 3 and helped clarify some of my more confusing rants! And, of course, I must thank all my friends and coworkers at Groveware Inc., the Centre for Academic Technology at the University of Toronto, and University of Toronto Computing, whose friendship over these past months helped make the whole effort possible.

But most of all, I thank my wife, Ann, for her love, patience, and support throughout the long writing process. And now that it is finished—I promise to clean the basement!