Hi, I’m Lea! 👋🏼 I make things for making things. I’m an award-winning web standards leader , and have designed several web technologies implemented in your browser. I have launched open source dev tools used by millions, and consult on my areas of expertise. I hold a PhD in usability & innovation from MIT — but chose…
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Web Components had so much potential to empower HTML to do more, and make web development more accessible to non-programmers and easier for programmers. Remember how exciting it was every time we got new shiny HTML elements that actually do stuff ? Remember how exciting it was to be able to do sliders, color pickers…
Today I finally released the project I’ve been working on for the last two years at MIT CSAIL : An HTML-based language for creating (many kinds of) web applications without programming or a server backend. It’s named Mavo after my late mother ( Ma ria V er o u), and is Open Source of course (yes, getting paid to work…