Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments from Chuck Hudson

Whenever a challenging project such as this is undertaken, multiple people are involved in making the project a success. I was fortunate enough to embark on this book with Tom Leadbetter, my coauthor, who is an extremely talented designer and developer. Thank you, Tom, for sharing your knowledge, testing mine, and being a great sounding board for my many crazy ideas.

Thank you to my family: Ma, for your support; Dad, for cutting an entrepreneurial path; and my grandparents, for your love. To my little one, Sierra, you always succeed in bringing a smile to my face through your unending questions of why. Never stop being inquisitive. And especially to Michele, for your endless support of my bleeding-edge technology addiction and endless “projects.” Your understanding, while I agonized many times over a single line of code, means the world to me.

Tom S., thanks for the many laughs over the years. I look forward to seeing what adventures are in front of us.

Finally, thanks to all my friends and family for the time to do this project; you have all taught me that through passion and perseverance anything is possible.

Acknowledgments from Tom Leadbetter

First, let me thank my coauthor, Chuck Hudson, who has helped me throughout the writing process and provided valuable feedback when it was needed the most, not to mention him writing some fantastic bits of code!

Thank you to the HTML5 Doctors—Rich Clark, Bruce Lawson, Remy Sharp, Jack Osborne, Mike Robinson, Oli Studholme, and Brandan Lennox—for their time, skills, and dedication on the HTML5Doctor.com site, which always provides wonderful knowledge and discussion for the web community.

Finally, to my wife, Lucy: Thank you so much for your support when I was struggling and for your patience when I’ve disappeared for many an evening and weekend. I’ve done my best with the book, and you’ve helped me all the way.

Joint Acknowledgments

Thanks to Trina MacDonald and Pearson for taking a chance on us and your continued patience as we tried to constantly improve the text. Thanks to the editors, Michael Thurston, Evan Burchard, Tim Wright, Siddharth Ram, and Kim Wimpsett, for providing advice and detailed, insightful feedback and spotting things we would never have spotted. Many times you were able to allow us to see the forest for the trees, and the end result is much better because of it. Thank you for all your time and effort. We know it does not come without sacrifice, and it provided a good challenge.

Lastly, we would like to thank the entire HTML5 community for sharing your knowledge and you, the reader, for being trailblazers during a truly exciting time. It is our hope that you have as much enjoyment with the technologies through this book as we had in creating it.