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Eric A. Meyer is an American web design consultant and author. He is best known for his advocacy work on behalf of web standards, most notably Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), a technique for managing how HTML is displayed. Meyer has written a number of books and articles on CSS and given many presentations promoting its use.[1]
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Life and career
Meyer graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 1992 with a B.A. in History, and minors in artificial intelligence, astronomy, and English.[2]
From 1992 to 2000, Meyer was employed as a hypermedia systems manager at CWRU. In 2001, he joined Netscape as an Internet applications manager and remained with the company until 2003.
Meyer is currently a consultant for Complex Spiral Consulting as well as a founding member of the Global Multimedia Protocols Group.
On July 28, 2005, the S5 format and software was placed in the Public Domain by Eric Meyer.
In 2008, Meyer supported a Microsoft proposal for Internet Explorer 8 related to backwards compatibility modes for rendering invalid HTML and other markup.[3]
Bibliography
- More Eric Meyer on CSS ISBN 0-7357-1425-8
- Eric Meyer on CSS ISBN 0-7357-1245-X
- Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide ISBN 0-596-00525-3
- Cascading Style Sheets 2.0 Programmer's Reference ISBN 0-07-213178-0
- CSS Pocket Reference ISBN 0-596-00120-7
See also
External links
References
- ^ More Eric Meyer on CSS (book review), Technical Communication (May 2005), Retrieved March 2, 2011 ("It would be difficult to learn about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) without reading a book or article written by Eric Meyer...")
- ^ Dyer, Russell (12 March 2003). The XML.com Interview: Eric Meyer, Xml.com, Retrieved March 2, 2011
- ^ From Switches to Targets: A Standardista's Journey
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