Michael™ Smith has worked in design, development, testing, and deployment of Internet and mobile technologies for more than 10 years — from carrier-grade e-mail delivery systems and content-transformation technologies to Web browsers and Web-based applications. For most of those years he worked on systems for mobile operators in Japan — at Openwave Systems and at Opera Software. He now works for the W3C, helping to develop, refine, and move forward standards related to core browser technologies, including HTML5.