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About Eric Meyer

For Eric K. Meyer, University of Illinois journalism professor, see: Eric Meyer (Professor)

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Eric 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."

  1. Mentioned In 26 Articles

  2. 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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  3. 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)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Opera   Firefox   Andy Clarke

  4. 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)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Adobe   Dean Edwards   Javascript

  5. 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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  6. 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)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Firefox   Yahoo User Interface Library   Eric Meyer

  7. 4 Ways to Create Web-Based Data Visualisations

    Explore Article Carsonified (Apr 20 2010)

    4 Ways to Create Web-Based Data Visualisations ...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... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Eric Meyer   Google   Brian Suda

  8. 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)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Eric Meyer   Jonathan Snook

  9. 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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  10. 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)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   John Resig   Eric Meyer   Firefox

  11. 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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  12. 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)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Safari   Eric Meyer   Jeffrey Zeldman

  13. CSS Angles: Just the Edge Your Web Page Needs!

    Explore Article SitePoint (Dec 3 2008)

    CSS Angles: Just the Edge Your Web Page Needs! ...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... (Read Full Article)

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  14. 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)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Jeremy Keith   Eric Meyer

  15. Comment on 9 Web Developers That MUST Be Followed On Twitter by Shane

    Explore Article Web Development & Design Tutorials (Aug 8 2008)

    Comment on 9 Web Developers That MUST Be Followed On Twitter by Shane ..."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... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Eric Meyer   John Resig

  16. Comment on 9 Web Developers That MUST Be Followed On Twitter by ...

    Explore Article Web Development & Design Tutorials (Aug 7 2008)

    Comment on 9 Web Developers That MUST Be Followed On Twitter by ... ..."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... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Eric Meyer   John Resig

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