I may be biased, but I have a feeling this is going to be the must-have web design book of 2007. Each of us picked one innovative, clever, or interesting technique or technology to focus on, and the chapter’s I’ve seen are truly great. We’re hoping it’ll be available by SXSW — it should definitely be out sometime in March. Keep an eye open for it. Authors: Cameron Adams, Mark Boulton, Andy Budd, Andy Clarke, Simon Collison, Jeff Croft, Derek Featherstone, Ian Lloyd, Ethan Marcotte, Dan Rubin, and Rob Weychert. Visit site »
The new W3C HTML Working Group, who will create the next version of HTML, will be initially chaired by Microsoft’s Chris Wilson. Although my impression is that Chris is a good person and has good intentions, I agree with Roger that it’s hard not to be a little leary of Microsoft being in this position of power — what with their attitude towards web standards over the years. Still, I remain cautiously hopefully that Chris Wilson will use this position to influence Microsoft to do the right thing, rather than for Microsoft to influence the W3C. Visit site »