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Eric A. Meyer

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Eric A. Meyer
Eric Meyer at @Media2006 conference
Eric Meyer at @Media2006 conference
Alma materCase Western Reserve University(graduated in 1992)
Occupations
  • Web design consultant
  • Author
SpouseKathryn Meyer
Children3
Websitemeyerweb/eric/

Eric A. Meyeris an American web design consultant and author. He is best known for his advocacy work on behalf ofweb standards,most notablyCSS(Cascading Style Sheets), a technique for managing howHTML(Hypertext Markup Language) is displayed. Meyer has written a number of books and articles on CSS and given many presentations promoting its use.[1]Eric currently works forIgalia.

Personal life

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Meyer was born to parents Arthur and Carol Meyer.[2]He now has a stepmother, Cathy.[3]

Meyer graduated fromCase Western Reserve University(CWRU) in 1992 with a BA in History, and minors inartificial intelligence,astronomy,andEnglish.[4]

He is married to Kathryn Meyer (born Fradkin) and has three adopted children: Carolyn, Rebecca and Joshua Meyer (Now Jade Meyer).[5]In 2014, his second daughter Rebecca Alison Meyer died of a brain tumor at six years of age.[6][7]Thehex color#663399was named "rebeccapurple" and added to theCSS Colorslist in her memory.[8][9]

Career

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From 1992 to 2000, Meyer was employed as ahypermediasystems manager at CWRU. In 1998, he developed the landmark CSS1 test suite with the help of other volunteers, allowing CSS implementors to test their software and address its rendering issues.[10]Meyer joined theWeb Standards Projectin the same year and became a co-founder of its CSS Samurai, formally known as the CSS Action Committee,[11]an advocacy group which worked with browser vendors to improve CSS support in their products.[12]

A columnist since 1997,[4]a book author and frequent conference speaker on CSS since 2000, Meyer has attained celebrity status in the field of web design.[13]

In 2001, he joinedNetscapeas 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 theGlobal Multimedia Protocols Group.

Meyer is also the creator of theS5 format(Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System), an XHTML-based file format for defining slideshows. On July 28, 2005, version 1.1. of S5 was placed in the Public Domain.[14]

In 2008, Meyer supported aMicrosoftproposal forInternet Explorer 8related to backwards compatibility modes for rendering invalid HTML and other markup.[15]

Meyer currently works atIgalia.

Bibliography

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  • Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide,O'Reilly, 2000,ISBN0-596-00525-3
  • Cascading Style Sheets 2.0 Programmer's Reference,2001,ISBN0-07-213178-0
  • CSS Pocket Reference,O'Reilly, 2001,ISBN0-596-00120-7
  • Eric Meyer on CSS,New Riders, 2002,ISBN0-7357-1245-X
  • More Eric Meyer on CSS,Voices That Matter, 2004,ISBN0-7357-1425-8
  • Eric A. Meyer,Sara Wachter-Boettcher,Design for Real Life,A Book Apart, 2016,ISBN978-1-937557-40-9

References

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  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. ^"In Memoriam".
  3. ^"In Memoriam: Rebecca Alison Meyer".
  4. ^abDyer, Russell (March 12, 2003).The XML Interview: Eric MeyerArchivedJune 29, 2011, at theWayback Machine,Xml,Retrieved March 2, 2011
  5. ^"Adoption – Eric's Archived Thoughts".meyerweb.RetrievedNovember 14,2020.
  6. ^"The Diagnosis".
  7. ^"In Memoriam: Rebecca Alison Meyer".
  8. ^"A hue angle of 270 degrees, a saturation of 50% and a lightness of 40%".
  9. ^Glazman, Daniel."Re: [CfC] adding 'rebeccapurple' color to CSS Color Level 4".[email protected] mailing list archives.W3C.RetrievedOctober 16,2018.
  10. ^Bos, Bert (December 19, 2016)."A Brief History of CSS until 2016".W3C.RetrievedMarch 18,2019.
  11. ^Hoffman, Jay (April 10, 2017)."The Rise of CSS".The History of the Web.RetrievedMarch 19,2019.
  12. ^Johnson, Nathan Riley (2008). "Technical Documents as Rhetorical Agency".Archival Science.8(3): 199–215.doi:10.1007/s10502-009-9075-4.S2CID143992034.
  13. ^Kennedy, Helen (2012).Net Work: Ethics and Values in Web Design.New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 181.ISBN978-0-230-23140-5.
  14. ^Meyer, Eric (July 28, 2005)."S5 1.1 – Eric's Archived Thoughts".Meyerweb.Archivedfrom the original on April 20, 2021.RetrievedDecember 5,2021.
  15. ^From Switches to Targets: A Standardista's Journey
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