About the Authors

The authors of this book are as versatile and multifaceted as the new web standard they were brave enough to write about while it was still in development.

Klaus Förster, an open source enthusiast, works at the Department of Geography of the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He has attended numerous SVG Open conferences as speaker, reviewer, and workshop leader, and contributed SVG modules to the free software projects PostGIS, GRASS GIS, and SpatiaLite.

Bernd Öggl, lecturer and system administrator at the University of Innsbruck, is the coauthor of a book on PHP and MySQL and has many years of experience programming web applications.