Eric A. Meyer

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Web design consultant and author

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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 CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), a technique for managing how HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is displayed. Meyer has written a number of books and articles on CSS and given many presentations promoting its use.

Personal life

Meyer graduated from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in 1992 with a BA in history, and minors in artificial intelligence, astronomy, and English.{{Cite web |last=Dyer |first=Russell |date=March 12, 2003 |title=The XML.com Interview: Eric Meyer |url=https://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/12/meyer.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629104745/http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/1172 |archive-date=June 29, 2011 |website=XML.com}}

He is married to Kathryn Meyer (born Fradkin) and has three adopted children.{{Cite web |title=Adoption – Eric's Archived Thoughts |url=https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/personal/adoption/ |access-date=2020-11-14 |website=meyerweb.com |language=en-US}} In 2014, his second daughter Rebecca Alison Meyer died of a brain tumor on her sixth birthday,{{cite web |title=The Diagnosis |url=http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2013/08/21/diagnosis/ |date=August 21, 2013 |website=Meyerweb}} and the hex color #663399 was named "rebeccapurple" and added to the CSS Colors list in her memory.{{Cite web |date=June 21, 2014 |title=A hue angle of 270 degrees, a saturation of 50% and a lightness of 40% |url=http://www.metafilter.com/140112/A-hue-angle-of-270-degrees-a-saturation-of-50-and-a-lightness-of-40 |website=MetaFilter}}{{cite web |last=Glazman |first=Daniel |title=Re: [CfC] adding 'rebeccapurple' color to CSS Color Level 4 |url=http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Jun/0312.html |website=www-style@w3.org mailing list archives |publisher=W3C |access-date=16 October 2018}}

Career

From 1992 to 2000, Meyer was employed as a hypermedia systems 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. Meyer joined the Web Standards Project in the same year and became a co-founder of its CSS Samurai, formally known as the CSS Action Committee, an advocacy group which worked with browser vendors to improve CSS support in their products.

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

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.

Meyer is also the creator of the S5 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.

In 2008, Meyer supported a Microsoft proposal for Internet Explorer 8 related to backwards compatibility modes for rendering invalid HTML and other markup.

Bibliography

References

References

  1. DeLoach, Scott. (May 2005). "Review of More Eric Meyer on CSS; Core CSS: Cascading Style Sheets. 2nd ed.; Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide. 2nd ed., Eric A. Meyer; CSS Pocket Reference. 2nd ed., Eric A. Meyer".
  2. (June 9, 2014). "In Memoriam: Rebecca Alison Meyer".
  3. Bos, Bert. (2016-12-19). "A Brief History of CSS until 2016". W3C.
  4. Hoffman, Jay. (2017-04-10). "The Rise of CSS". The History of the Web.
  5. Johnson, Nathan Riley. (September 2008). "Technical documents as rhetorical agency". Archival Science.
  6. Kennedy, Helen. (2012). "Net Work: Ethics and Values in Web Design". Palgrave Macmillan.
  7. Meyer, Eric. (2005-07-28). "S5 1.1 – Eric's Archived Thoughts".
  8. Meyer, Eric. (January 22, 2008). "From Switches to Targets: A Standardista's Journey".

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