Alex Libby has a background in IT support. He has been involved in supporting end users for almost 20 years in a variety of different environments; a recent change in role now sees Alex working as an MVT test developer for a global distributor based in the UK. Although Alex gets to play with different technologies in his day job, his first true love has always been with the open source movement, and in particular experimenting with CSS/CSS3, jQuery, and HTML5. To date, Alex has written 11 books on subjects such as jQuery, HTML5 Video, SASS, and CSS for Packt, and has reviewed several more. Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials is Alex's twelfth book for Packt, and second completed as a collaboration project.
Writing books has always been rewarding. It's a great way to learn new technologies and give back something to others who have yet to experience them. My thanks must go to Packt and my coauthors for letting me review and assist with editing this book. My special thanks must also go to family and friends for their support too—it helps get through the late nights!
Gaurav Gupta is a young and budding IT professional and has a good amount of experience of working on web and cross-platform application development and testing. He is a versatile developer and a tester and is always keen to learn new technologies to be updated in this domain. Passion about his work makes him stand apart from other developers.
Even at a relatively early stage of his career, he is a published author of two books, named Mastering HTML5 Forms and Mastering Mobile Test Automation with Packt Publishing.
A graduate in computer science, he currently works for a reputed Fortune 500 company and has developed and tested several web and mobile applications for the internal use.
Gaurav is a native of Chandigarh, India, and currently lives in Pune, India.
First of all, I would like to thank the almighty and my family, who have always guided me to walk on the right path in life. My heartfelt gratitude and indebtedness goes to all those people in my life who gave me constructive criticism, as it contributed directly or indirectly in a significant way toward firing up my zeal to achieve my goals. A special thanks to my sister, Anjali, who is a constant support, always.
Asoj Talesra is an enthusiastic software developer with strong technical background. As a hybrid mobile app developer, he is responsible for crafting and developing intuitive, responsive web pages, and mobile apps using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, AngularJS, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Xamarin, and Appcelerator Titanium. He works with a Fortune 500 company, and is well experienced in the areas of banking, quality and compliance, and audit.
At the very first, I'd like to thank Gaurav Gupta for advising me with such an amazing opportunity. The astounding encouragement and support from my family and friends is something I'm really indebted to, and I owe each one of you a part of this. I'd also like to thank Apurva and Poonam especially, for their contributions and feedback that helped me a lot shaping up this book. We wish to extend our sincere gratitude to the team from Packt Publishing and the technical reviewers for their valuable suggestions, which proved extremely helpful in making this a better book for the readers. Our special thanks to our mentors, colleagues, and friends for sharing their experiences, which have proved very valuable in making this book better oriented toward the real-world challenges faced. | ||
| --Gaurav Gupta and Asoj Talesra | ||