About Eric Meyer
For Eric K. Meyer, University of Illinois journalism professor, see: Eric Meyer (Professor)
Read MoreEric A. Meyer is a prominent 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.
Meyer graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 1992 with a B.A. in History, and minors in artificial intelligence, astronomy, and English.
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."
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Media Queries, CSS Backgrounds and Vendor Prefixes
Explore Article Think Vitamin (Jul 21 2010)
... to create media queries for different devices. Includes downloadable code. 3. Prefix or Posthack – Eric Meyer recounts the history of the box model hack and argues that vendor prefixes are a good thing, do you... (Read Full Article)
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Background module supported; vendors ditch prefixes
Explore Article QuirksMode (Jun 24 2010)
...at vendor prefixes should be abolished. I published that thought back in March, and within 24 hours Eric Meyer, Andy Clarke, Jonathan Snook, and Stephen Hay told me I was wrong. Vendor prefixes may not be beaut... (Read Full Article)
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Molly on How HTML5 is Going to Completely Change your Web App
Explore Article Carsonified (Jun 14 2010)
...” That’s some hardcore passion right there. Me? I don’t know. How many people are familiar with Mr. Eric Meyer, also known as the “Pope of CSS”? Many of you know that. I have a little anecdote I’d like to share... (Read Full Article)
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CSS Structural Reset
Explore Article Ajaxian (May 21 2010)
...o deal with multiple browser is so reset the CSS for them all, and built up from there. We then got Eric Meyer's reset and YUI reset etc. Vladimir [...] CSS Structural Reset Category: CSS, Tip Browsers weren't ... (Read Full Article)
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The Big List of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML Development Tools ...
Explore Article Galaxy Blog 2 Menit (May 13 2010)
...specify baseline CSS styles that make browser presentation defaults more consistent. Meyer Reset by Eric Meyer YUI2: Reset CSS IECSS JavaScript Libraries: I definitely recommend everyone to learn JavaScript as ... (Read Full Article)
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4 Ways to Create Web-Based Data Visualisations
Explore Article Carsonified (Apr 20 2010)
...om a list. There are several implementations of pure CSS charts out there that can get you started. Eric Meyer wrote a demo several years ago, but it is still as useful today as when it was written. He also man...
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CSS vendor prefixes redux
Explore Article QuirksMode (Mar 23 2010)
...ns to my proposal to abolish vendor prefixes are mixed, and I might have overshot my target here. Eric Meyer, Jonathan Snook, and Stephen Hay reacted to my post, and it’s clear that they believe vendor prefix... (Read Full Article)
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Setting rather than Resetting Default Styling
Explore Article Carsonified (Mar 10 2010)
... resetting margin and padding. The most complete in terms of properties/elements involved has to be Eric Meyer’s. It “unstyles” everything you could think of, from a to var. Authors start with a clean slate. Fr... (Read Full Article)
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Is CSS 3 over-baked? - CSS3 . Info
Explore Article CSS3 . Info (Aug 20 2009)
The every prolific John Resig weighed (as did Eric Meyer) in the past on the CSS 3 specification and the template layout issues that many have with the prop... (Read Full Article)
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How to Create a Memorable Super Secure Password
Explore Article Carsonified (Jul 29 2009)
...problem with secure passwords is that they’re impossible to remember, so here’s a handy method that Eric Meyer taught me. Simply combine two words that you won’t forget, with a [...] How to Create a Memorable S... (Read Full Article)
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Why (some) standards fail
Explore Article glazman (Jul 24 2009)
...se fortunately cool guys like Jeffrey Zeldman cover the world giving conferences about CSS, because Eric Meyer next CSS 3 book will be here to explain CSS to the masses. That's not the W3C's job. And yes, CSS 3... (Read Full Article)
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CSS Angles: Just the Edge Your Web Page Needs!
Explore Article SitePoint (Dec 3 2008)
...es to find a new way of achieving a solution. The first place I saw the use of CSS angles was in Eric Meyer’s Slantastic demo. Right away, I thought that was so cool and was amazed at the possibilities it op...
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The lessons of CSS frameworks
Explore Article Ajaxian (Aug 20 2008)
...been doing a great job blogging An Event Apart, and his writeup of The Lessons of CSS Frameworks by Eric Meyer caught my eye. Eric took a look at the most popular CSS frameworks (960, Blueprint, Content With St... (Read Full Article)
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Explore Article Web Development & Design Tutorials (Aug 8 2008)
..."Why didn't he include this person!". Well be sure to leave a comment with those that I left off. * Eric Meyer Eric Meyer: http://www.meyerweb.com Few web developers are unfamiliar with this name. In fact, the first CSS b...
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Explore Article Web Development & Design Tutorials (Aug 7 2008)
..."Why didn't he include this person!". Well be sure to leave a comment with those that I left off. * Eric Meyer Eric Meyer: http://www.meyerweb.com Few web developers are unfamiliar with this name. In fact, the first CSS b...
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