Eric A. Meyer

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• experience
• skills
• publications
• presentations
• projects

Education

• Case Western Reserve University
  • August 1988 - May 1992
  • Bachelor of Arts in History
  • Minors in Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy, and English
• Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies
  • August 1993 - May 1994
  • Candidate for Master of Arts Degree in English

Employment Experience

• Standards Evangelist
  • Netscape Communications
  • May 2001 - July 2003
• Internet Applications Manager
  • The OPAL Group
  • March 2000 - May 2001
• Hypermedia Systems Manager
  • Digital Media Services, CWRU
  • May 1992 - March 2000
• Customer Support Specialist
  • University Libraries Microcomputer Labs, CWRU
  • August 1989 - May 1992

Professional Skills

• Expert: CSS, HTML/XHTML, cross-browser development
• Proficient: JavaScript, XML, site optimization and performance, system architecture
• Familiar: XSLT, XPath, RSS, XBL, CVS, accessibliity

Selected Publications

• Eric Meyer on CSS
  • New Riders, July 2002
• Cascading Style Sheets 2.0 Programmer's Reference
  • Osborne/McGraw-Hill, March 2001
• Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide
  • O'Reilly & Associates, May 2000
• "Going To Print"
  • A List Apart, May 2002
• "Images, Tables, and Mysterious Gaps"
  • Netscape DevEdge, March 2002
• "Why Browsers Aren't Standardized"
  • Webmonkey, September 1998
• "Borealis Image Server"
  • Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 28 (May 1996)
• Introduction to HTML
  • CWRU Web server, June 1995

Selected Presentations

• The Standards Payoff (conference keynote)
  • TODCON MX
  • Las Vegas, NV, July 2003
• Surprising Style
  • Los Alamos National Laboratories
  • Los Alamos, NM, February 2003
• Bridging Browsers: Compatibility Concerns (keynote)
  • Web Design World
  • Seattle, WA, July 2002
• CSS: Theory and Application (full-day course)
  • Web2001
  • San Francisco, CA, September 2001
• The W3C and Web Standards (panel chair)
  • Ninth International World Wide Web Conference
  • Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 2000
• The Development of the CSS Test Suites
  • Eighth International World Wide Web Conference
  • Toronto, ON, May 1999
• Design Issues for Web-Based Teaching Materials (poster)
  • Sixth International World Wide Web Conference
  • Santa Clara, CA, April 1997
• Hypertext, Filtering, and the User
  • Society for Critical Exchange
  • Cleveland, OH, March 1997

Selected Projects

• css-discuss
• Netscape DevEdge
• css/edge
• CSS2 and HTML 4.01 Sidebars
• Color Blender
• Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
• W3C CSS1 Test Suite
• Style Sheets Reference Guide

Affiliations

• Invited Expert, CSS&FP Working Group, World Wide Web Consortium
• Committee Member, CSS Advisory Committee, Web Standards Project (1998 - 2000)
• HTML Writers Guild
• Webmasters' Guild
• WRUW-FM 91.1 Cleveland

Qualities

• Creative, enthusiastic, reliable, innovative, affable.

Updated 30 October 2001