The HTML5 Super Friends, Who are they?
Monday, 7th September 2009
Now that the HTML5 Super Friends have chimed in on what concerns them most about HTML5, I decided to get to know each of the Super Friends by adding them to my RSS reader. Here’s a short description of each one:
- Dan Cederholm is an expert in the field of standards-based web design.
- Tantek Çelik is best known as a principle editor of several CSS specifications, former chief technologist for Technorati and for his time spent at Microsoft working on Internet Explorer for Mac. More recently he’s known for his advocacy of microformats. Tantek has a pretty good wiki.
- Wendy Chisholm is an expert in universal design and content accessibility.
- Aaron Gustafson is a web standards evangelist, a member of the Web Standards Project, A List Apart and Web Design in a Nutshell.
- Jeremy Keith is a master of the DOM, scripting and AJAX.
- Ethan Marcotte is a senior designer at Happy Cog, and passionate about web standards and gorgeous design.
- Eric Meyer is a CSS guru.
- Nicole Sullivan is a performance engineer at Yahoo! Check out of CV.
- Jeffrey Zeldman‘s A List Apart tutorial site is his biggest claim to fame.
This should be a great resource as the HTML 5 spec emerges.
They haven’t actually chimed in on what concerns them most about HTML5 yet — the feedback they wrote hasn’t been sent to the working group. All they did is write a blog post about how they will one day send that feedback. Hundreds of people before them have managed to send feedback to the working group without announcing it with such fanfare first, so I don’t know what they’re waiting for.
That’s a fair point Ian, I definitely missed the subtly of that in their statement, although I certainly sensed the “we’re a team of web developers who must be heard” attitude.
The squeaky wheel…