Eric Meyer
Encyclopedia
United States
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web design consultant and author. He is best known for his advocacy work on behalf of web standards
Web standards
Web standards is a general term for the formal standards and other technical specifications that define and describe aspects of the World Wide Web. In recent years, the term has been more frequently associated with the trend of endorsing a set of standardized best practices for building web sites,...
, most notably Cascading Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...
(CSS), a technique for managing how HTML
HTML
HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
is displayed. Meyer has written a number of books and articles on CSS and given many presentations promoting its use.
Life and career
Meyer graduated from Case Western Reserve UniversityCase Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA...
in 1992 with a B.A.
Bachelor of Arts
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in History, and minors in artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
, astronomy
Astronomy
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, and English
English studies
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From 1992 to 2000, Meyer was employed as a hypermedia systems manager at CWRU. In 2001, he joined Netscape
Netscape
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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
Global Multimedia Protocols Group
The Global Multimedia Protocols Group was founded in March 2003 by Tantek Çelik, Eric Meyer, and Matt Mullenweg. The group has developed methods to represent human relationships using XHTML called XHTML Friends Network and XHTML Meta Data Profiles , for use in weblogs....
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On July 28, 2005, the S5 format and software was placed in the Public Domain by Eric Meyer.
In 2008, Meyer supported a Microsoft
Microsoft
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proposal for Internet Explorer 8
Internet Explorer 8
Windows Internet Explorer 8 is a web browser developed by Microsoft in the Internet Explorer browser series. The browser was released on March 19, 2009 for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7. Both 32-bit and 64-bit builds are available...
related to backwards compatibility modes for rendering invalid HTML and other markup.