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We are really excited to announce our final keynote speaker for Web Directions South 2007 – Chris Wilson. Chris, currently the co-chair of the W3C’s HTML working group, and Platform Architect of the Internet Explorer browser has a long and extraordinary career with the web. He was a developer of Mosaic, the browser which really kickstarted the web as a mainstream medium. As developer for IE3 for Windows, he was the first to implement CSS support in a commercial browser. And he has for many years been associated with the W3C and the development of many of the web standards we take for granted today.

In his keynote, Chris will examine the state of the web, some of the problems facing browsers (as Platform Architect of the Internet Explorer browser) and standards (as co-chair of the HTML Working Group) and explore what we need to do together to move the web forward. This is very very timely in the context of the current state of HTML, about which there is a great deal of debate and no little controversy in some quarters. It’s a privilege to be able to get the low down from someone so tremendously experienced and deeply involved in making the web what it is today, and in helping shape what it will become.

Chris’s keynote will close the first day of the conference, leading no doubt to many interesting and important discussions at the reception that follow immediately afterwards.