Hi, I am Divya Manian. I am a finger bender create websites.

You might know me from HTML5 Readiness & HTML5 Boilerplate.

While I am off-duty as Open Web Vigilante, I sketch and illustrate. My work has been featured on the website of Ministry of Education, Singapore and the Word-It Book.

I blog about Web design. Here are some of my best entries:

• Font in your face — The history of web typography, current status, and a short note on the future it holds.
• About Fonts in SVG — I investigate how fonts are rendered in SVG and how SVG fonts can work as webfonts.
• Multi-Lingual Fonts with Typotheque and Font Face — an investigation into rendering non-latin scripts using web fonts.
• The Long Road from XHTML to HTML — an article on the rise and fall of XHTML.
• Declaring Languages in HTML 5, going through the rabbit hole that is internationalization of HTML documents.
• A bit of SVG and Canvas — SVG and Canvas have gained currency because of greater support in HTML 5. This post explains the differences between the two and how to use them with older browsers.
• Using Data URIs in CSS — A post on how Data URIs can be used to render fonts and images.
• Drop Shadows with CSS 3 – A simple way to create flexible drop shadows.
• What Web Designers need to know about EPUB - An introduction to the EPUB book format for web designers and how to take advantage of it.

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I tweet about the latest gossip in HTML 5 Open Web Standards.