Any thoughts on touching on naming conventions for attributes as part of the semantics section? Andy Clarke produced a neat little table of naming conventions by major designers a while back.

Oh and can you work out an upgrade pricing structure for those of us with earlier editions like Adobe does with its Creative Suite? ;)

Are you going to require any updated screenshots of browsers displaying current sites running on vintage computing platforms? Newton? BeOS? System 7? Let me know.

Excellent, my friend. Thank you.

Best wishes,

Andreas

Graceful degradation versus Progressive enhancement?

Look forward to it!

Microformats??? CSS3 (progressive enrichment)??? HTML5??? Coping with IE6?

Yes!!! Yess!!! Yes!!! Yes!!!

For owners of DWWS 1e and 2e, will there be enough new content to justify purchase of 3e?

Yes.

I think the question on everyone’s mind is; what colour is the third edition cover going to be?

I am toying with blue, red, and brown, but who knows?

Maybe glitter.

Or wood texture. I hear the kids like that.

How much will be different from the 2nd edition? And will we see another cover color?

Large chunks of the book will be substantially different. Whole chapters are going out the window, replaced by new material. (For instance, current chapters 3 and 4 are gone.) There’s a new, three-part structure, with a leaner front end, a cleaner middle where principles of semantic markup, CSS layout, unobtrusive scripting, and so on are discussed, and new, more complex layout examples in the back.

Kiss hybrid layouts goodbye. There’s more about semantics. HTML 5: what it is, where it’s at, what it means for “forward compatibility” of XHTML; microformats: concepts, languages, examples in use on cool sites and Google, limitations of microformats as a forward strategy, accessibility problems, excessive code problem. Long- and short-term prospects for emerging specifications and browsers. IE7 and IE8 (and what do we do about IE6 users?) Safari, Chrome, and Webkit. Tools. Heroes and heroines. More techniques to evangelize standards. How to sell standards internally. What to say to recalcitrant IT departments, indifferent bosses, etc.

Lots of stuff.

I was very disappointed by your take on XHTML vs. HTML in the second edition. Will you continue to pretend that there are no issues with XTHML or are you going to be more responsible this time?

I never pretended there were no issues. In the foreword, I discussed the chief objection, with links to Hixie’s article. I explained why Hixie’s problem, although real, didn’t concern me; encouraged trial of XHTML since that was my view; and encouraged readers to make up their own minds. (The “ten reasons” and “five reasons” thing was an attempt to bring mild comic relief to an amazingly boring subject.)

That said, with HTML 5 in the offing, with XHTML 2 not looking like a terrific option for most web designers, there are more issues, and this time around I’ll spend time talking about HTML 4 and HTML 5 as well as XHTML 1.

Also, I’d love more information on microformats, CSS3, and why CSS frameworks are a bad idea (personal opinion I suppose, they just make everything so bloated…learning proper CSS should be a priority over learning to work within a predefined framework).

These are the first four things that came to mind. And Jeffrey: Thanks. Your book has helped me grow as web designer, and for that I cannot thank you enough for your hard work. Good luck with the third edition, I look forward to it.