Web Directions

The State of the Web — ask the experts

• In: Blog
• By:John
• February 1, 2009
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A few weeks back, we pub­lished the results of our first State of the Web sur­vey, and over 1200 web design­ers, devel­op­ers, and oth­ers in the web indus­try responded, giv­ing some valu­able, and unique insights into the tech­nolo­gies, philoso­phies and prac­tices of today’s web professionals.

Following on from this, next week at Web Directions North, we’ve assem­bled rep­re­sen­ta­tives from some of the most impor­tant orga­ni­za­tions and com­pa­nies shap­ing the web today, for a “State of the Web” ses­sion. So, here’s your chance to ask them your ques­tions about the direc­tion they and their orga­ni­za­tions see the web headed, and how their efforts are shap­ing that.

If you are keen to ask any or all of the fol­low­ing about the state of web tech­nolo­gies and browsers, then leave a com­ment here, and we’ll choose a rep­re­sen­ta­tive sam­ple to ask at the session.

Participants include

• Chris Wilson, co-​​chair of the HTML Working Group, and Platform Architect for Internet Explorer
• Lars Erik Bolstad, head of Opera Software’s Core Technology Department which devel­ops Opera’s cross-​​platform ren­der­ing engine “Presto”
• Dan Connolly, W3C, who needs lit­tle if any introduction
• Scott Fergette, Adobe Systems.

And maybe one or two late entrants as well.

So, fire away with any ques­tions you’d like to ask these folks, and we’ll put them to them in Denver next week.

We’ll also be pod­cast­ing the ses­sion, so keep an eye out for that in the com­ing weeks.

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