Lea Verou
Lea Verou | |
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 Lea Verou, speaking at_the Fonteer 2011 conference | |
| Born | June 13, 1986 |
| Nationality | Greek |
| Occupation | Software developer |
| Website | lea |
Lea Verou is a front end web developer, speaker and author, originally from Greece. She's currently a Research Assistant at MIT CSAIL, in David Karger’s Haystack group and an Invited Expert in the W3C CSS Working Group.[1]
Verou has written a book on advanced CSS for O’Reilly, worked for W3C/MIT, gave over 60 invited talks around the world, released several open source projects, co-founded a Greek startup called Fresset Ltd (which she left in 2011), and many other things.[1][2] She's written articles for some of the biggest industry media, including A List Apart and Smashing Magazine.[3]
Education
She holds a BSc in Computer Science from Athens University of Economics and Business, in which she co-organized a 4th year undergrad course about web development in the past. While her background is technical, she has a strong passion for visual design as well.[1][2]
Software
-prefix-free
Though most polyfills target out-of-date browsers, some exist to simply push modern browsers forward a little bit more. -prefix-free polyfill is such a polyfill, allowing current browsers to recognise the unprefixed versions of several CSS3 properties instead of requiring the developer to write out all the vendor prefixes. It reads the page's stylesheets and replaces any unprefixed properties with their prefixed counterparts recognised by the current browser.[4]
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/styles.css">
<script src="/path/to/prefixfree.min.js"></script>
Prism
Prism is a lightweight, robust, elegant syntax highlighting library. It's a spin-off project from Dabblet. The project page has 23,000 unique visitors on its first day. WebMonkey devoted an entire new post to it. Used in big industry websites like A List Apart and Smashing Magazine, Mozilla Developer Network, CSS Tricks as well as Brendan Eich’s blog.[3][5]