The Complete Reference,
Fifth Edition
About the Author
Thomas A. Powell (tpowell@pint.com) is a long-time industry veteran. After an early stint at CERFnet in the early ‘90s, he founded Powell Internet Consulting (later renamed PINT) in 1994, a Web design and consulting services firm. Today, PINT (pint.com) provides Web development, design, and consulting services to large and small corporations all over the United States in a variety of industries.
Beyond his involvement at PINT, Thomas is heavily involved in the academic community. He developed the
University of California, San Diego Extension Web Publishing program in the late 1990s and continues to teach classes there in Web development and design. He is also an instructor for the UCSD Computer Science Department, where he teaches classes in Web development and the theory of programming languages. Mr. Powell is well published, and his work has appeared in numerous trade publications. He continues to publish regularly in Network World. He also has published numerous books on Web technology and design, including Ajax: The
Complete Reference, JavaScript: The Complete Reference, and many others. His books have been translated into over
12 languages and are used around the world both in industry and college settings.
About the Technical Editor
James H. (Jim) Pence is a full-time writer, editor, speaker, singer, and performance chalk artist. Jim broke into book publishing in 2001 with How to Do Everything with HTML, a how-to book on Web authoring, written “by a nontechie for nontechies,” and published by McGraw-Hill Professional. He followed this book the same year with another book for
McGraw-Hill: Cascading Style Sheets: A Beginner’s Guide.
McGraw-Hill published a second edition of Jim’s HTML book, re-titled How to Do Everything with HTML & XHTML, in 2003.
Jim is also a published novelist. He is the author of Blind
Sight (Tyndale, 2003), a suspense/thriller novel set in the mind-control cults, and