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Tim Berners-Lee's Book referrals

These books are a few books written by people who have worked or do work on the W3C team. If you follow these links to the Amazon.com site and end up buying them (or anything else) then I get a few %. (Anyone can set this up).

Dave Raggett we call the "HTML Architect". He's been on the W3C team for years, as a visiting engineer from HP. Dave is always involved in all kinds of things, particularly he put a vast amount of effort into the design of HTML. His latest book - with help from friends - is Raggett on HTML 4.

When you are designing a Web page with HTML, you should use HTML to encode the content and a separate CSS style sheet to show the browser how to present it. The Cascading Style Sheets language was created by Håkon Lie, and he and Bert Bos worked in the W3C team to make style sheets a reality on the Web. They wrote Cascading Style Sheets : Designing for the Web. A second edition is in the pipeline.

The XML revolution has been one of the biggest news stories in Web technology, promising a way around all the incompatiability ofr application data formats from spreadsheets and bank statements to calendars and aircraft manuals. The Consortium's "staff contact" for the activity, who gave up managing the entire architecture domain to be "Mr. XML" at W3C, is Dan Connolly. I first met Dan at Hypertext 1991 in his native Texas, the first conference we ever showed the Web -- and was already both a hypertext geek and an SGML geek. Dan edited XML : Principles, Tools, and Techniques an O'Reilly paperback collecting wisdom on the subject. Dan says it's

"Nuts and Bolts of XML, plus relationship with HTML and SGML. I have to say, after working on HTML, and hence SGML, for these many years, it's gratifying to see our efforts to address problems with both of them take off beyond my wildest expectations. I hope this book will help you get up to speed on XML, and more than that, get into the nitty gritty and build things with it."

Dan's book is in fact a volume in the World Wide Web Journal series, which Rohit Khare edited for a while. Other volumes include

Building an Industrial Strength Web

I have my own book in the pipeline ... but it won't be on the shelves until October. "Weaving the Web" is an attempt to answer most of the frequently asked questions about how the Web came about and where its going in one compact volume.

This page is not book-vendor neutral! :-) It is done in association with Amazon.com

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