Comments on: Scenes From An Event Apart http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/01/19/scenes-from-an-event-apart/ Things that Eric A. Meyer, CSS expert, writes about on his personal Web site; it's largely Web standards and Web technology, but also various bits of culture, politics, personal observations, and other miscellaneous stuff Fri, 10 May 2013 11:50:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Chris Hester http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/01/19/scenes-from-an-event-apart/#comment-13038 Chris Hester Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:21:52 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/01/19/scenes-from-an-event-apart/#comment-13038 Yeah I saw Bill Gates give a speech at Live8 on TV last year. What I didn’t see was Eric Meyer in this video! Though of course I’ve seen many pictures of him before. I just felt that the video showed mostly the projection screen during Eric’s presentation. It showed lines of CSS and how the ALA website scrolls. Man, I can view those things online. Yet when Jeffrey Zeldman etc came on, we saw lots of them speaking to the crowd. It was a great chance to see the real people, without visiting the conference in person. I’m being lighthearted of course, but it just came across as if Eric had said to the video editing guy not to include much of him.

]]> By: Michael Hessling http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/01/19/scenes-from-an-event-apart/#comment-12988 Michael Hessling Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:19:52 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/01/19/scenes-from-an-event-apart/#comment-12988 Chris: have you seen Bill Gates? It’s not happening.

Eric: it’s such a pleasure to find a captioned video file. Thank you.

]]> By: Bob http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/01/19/scenes-from-an-event-apart/#comment-12963 Bob Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:09:44 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/01/19/scenes-from-an-event-apart/#comment-12963 Eric,
We were just using the Cleveland Public Library site in a presentation today about the importance of standards and clean HTML. We noticed that the Address of the Main Library has lost its left margin in Firefox (on page http://cpl.org/main-library.asp).

Thought you might want to know that your work is a model for others! Unfortunately/Fortunately it helped us highlight the risks and problems too…

]]> By: Chris Hester http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/01/19/scenes-from-an-event-apart/#comment-12783 Chris Hester Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:27:01 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/01/19/scenes-from-an-event-apart/#comment-12783 Hey Eric, no need to be so shy. A pity you weren’t shown face on in the video. I got the impression from the brief clips of the back of your head (don’t take this the wrong way) that you look like Bill Gates! But then I didn’t see enough to clarify that. Hmmm, maybe the next video will feature much more of you. Come on!

]]> By: mary13 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/01/19/scenes-from-an-event-apart/#comment-12771 mary13 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:34:29 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/01/19/scenes-from-an-event-apart/#comment-12771 Please come to Vancouver, BC?

]]> By: Jeff http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/01/19/scenes-from-an-event-apart/#comment-12758 Jeff Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:13:09 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/01/19/scenes-from-an-event-apart/#comment-12758 That video was cool! It also sounds like you guys got into a lot of things I always find myself asking, trying to work for myself and just little things you’ve gleaned from your years of experience.

I would have loved to bandy questions about with Jason regarding achieveing minimalist design with lots of flexibility…

Or Zeldman and how writing style, as well as copy can influence how users interact with your site..

And Eric.. well, I probably would have asked how many hours a day you sit around play with CSS just to get so unbelievably good with it…

But, maybe there will be “An Event Apart” near me in the future… who knows..

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