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Eric Meyer
Web standards advocate; joined Igalia in February 2021.
Cleveland, OH (USA)
Eric has been working on the Web since 1993 and still finds it deeply compelling as both a new medium for communication and a stunning technical achievement. He lives with his family in Cleveland, Ohio, which is a much nicer city than you’ve probably heard; enjoys a good meal whenever he can; and considers almost every form of music to be worthwhile.
POSTS
Nuclear Footnotes
One of the more interesting design challenges of The Effects of Nuclear Weapons was the fact that, like many technical texts, it has footnotes. Not a
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Table Column Alignment with Variable Transforms
One of the bigger challenges of recreating The Effects of Nuclear Weapons for the Web was its tables. It was easy enough to turn tab-separated text a
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Recreating “The Effects of Nuclear Weapons” for the Web
In my previous post, I wrote about a way to center elements based on their content, without forcing the element to be a specific width, while preservi
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Flexibly Centering an Element with Side-Aligned Content
In a recent side project that I hope will become public fairly soon,
I needed to center a left-aligned list of links inside the sides of the
viewport,
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