Eric Meyer
CSS author and web standards advocate; wrote CSS: The Definitive Guide; works at Igalia.
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- Eric A.
- Meyer is an American web design consultant and author, best known for advocating web standards and CSS.
- In 1998 he built the CSS1 test suite and co-founded the Web Standards Project's CSS Samurai.
- He has written many books on CSS, including CSS: The Definitive Guide.
- He works for Igalia.
- The CSS colour rebeccapurple is named for his daughter Rebecca.
Key facts
- Works at
- Igalia1
- Earlier
- Hypermedia systems manager, Case Western Reserve University (1992 to 2000); Netscape (2001 to 2003)1
- Books
- Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide (2000); Eric Meyer on CSS (2002); Design for Real Life, with Sara Wachter-Boettcher (2016)1
- Made
- CSS1 test suite (1998); S5 slide show format1
- Education
- BA in history, Case Western Reserve University (1992)1
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