Foreword

I’ve written thousands of pages of technical documentation. For all that, I’ve never written anything I think is more important than this book. Mike and I have described a paradigm of web development that has the potential to revolutionize the profession. As we say repeatedly throughout the book, if all web developers were to adopt the methodology we describe, they would get more done in less time. If even a significant portion of web developers adopted it, together we and they could accelerate the creation of content across the entire World Wide Web. A lot of content still hasn’t hit the Web, and a lot of applications haven’t even been imagined because the data to drive them aren’t there yet. If we web developers can just speed up ...

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