Eric Meyer

For other people named Eric Meyer, see Eric Meyer (disambiguation).

Eric Meyer at @Media2006 conference

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]

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

• S5 (file format)

External links

• Eric Meyer's Personal Website
• CSS mailing list

References

1. ^ 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...")
2. ^ Dyer, Russell (12 March 2003). The XML.com Interview: Eric Meyer, Xml.com, Retrieved March 2, 2011
3. ^ From Switches to Targets: A Standardista's Journey

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