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A decade later, a decade lost (2024)
I woke up this morning about an hour ahead of my alarm, the sky already light, birds calling.
Eric Meyer
The web home of Eric A. Meyer, CSS guy; and his wife Kathryn, doctor of nursing.
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Infinite Pixels
In which I push browser engines to their finite limits using infinite values.
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Get Static
If you are in charge of a web site that provides even slightly important information, or important services, it’s time to get static.
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“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful
It is not uncommon, in the context of academic debates over computer science and Web standards topics, to see the publication of one or more “considered harmful” essays. These essays have existed in some form for more than three decades now, and it has become obvious that their time has passed. Because “considered…
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Searching for Mark Pilgrim
Mark Pilgrim has left the internet.
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25 Years of CSS
It was the morning of Tuesday, May 7th, 1996 and I was sitting in the Ambroisie conference room of the CNIT in Paris, France having my mind repeatedly blown.
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Three Decades of HTML
A few days ago was the 30th anniversary of the first time I wrote an HTML document.
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When or If
The CSSWG (CSS Working Group) is currently debating what to name a conditional structure, and it’s kind of fascinating.
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Eric Meyer's Reset Revisited
It was close to four years ago now that I first floated (ha!), publicly refined, and then published at its own home what's become known as the
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Google did not unilaterally decide to kill XSLT
The Web Discourse has been spicy of late, and XSLT is to blame. Well, sort of. It’s complicated.