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5 unusual facts about Jeffrey Zeldman


Jeffrey Zeldman

Designing with Web Standards (ISBN 0-7357-1201-8; second edition, ISBN 0-321-38555-1; third edition, ISBN 0-321-61695-2)

In 1998, he began the e-zine A List Apart, which focuses on best practices and innovations in web design and front-end development.

In 2005, Zeldman and Eric Meyer founded An Event Apart, "the design conference for people who make websites."

Zeldman's book Designing with Web Standards brought standards awareness to a new international audience.

Web Standards Project

The Web Standards Project began as a grassroots coalition "fighting for standards in our web browsers" founded by George Olsen, Glenn Davis, and Jeffrey Zeldman in 1998.


Designing with Web Standards

The Web Standards movement pioneered by Glenn Davis, George Olsen, Jeffrey Zeldman, Steven Champeon, Todd Fahrner, Eric A. Meyer, Tantek Çelik, Dori Smith, Tim Bray, Jeffrey Veen, and other members of the Web Standards Project in the 1990s replaced bandwidth-heavy tag soup with light, semantic markup and progressive enhancement, with the goal of making web content "accessible to all".


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