Paul Irish
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Paul Irish | |
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| Born | July 23, 1982 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Worcester Polytechnic Institute (BS) |
| Occupation | Developer Relations |
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| Notable work | jQuery, Modernizr, Yeoman, HTML5 Boilerplate |
| Website | paulirish |
Paul Irish is an American front-end engineer and a developer advocate for the Google Chrome web browser. He is a evangelist in web technologies, including JavaScript and CSS.[1][2][3][4][dubious – discuss] In 2011, he was named Developer of the Year by The Net Awards for his contributions to the web development landscape and his participation in many popular open source projects.[5]
Front-end development
Irish has created, contributed to, or led the development of many front-end web development projects and JavaScript libraries:[6]
- Google Lighthouse, a tool for automated webpage quality analysis performance metrics and recommendations
- Chrome DevTools, the developer tools built into Google Chrome
- Modernizr, a feature detection library for HTML5 and CSS3 features
- Yeoman, a suite of tools for a web development workflow
- HTML5 Boilerplate, a template for HTML5 and CSS3 front-end development
- Bower, a package manager for web developers
- jQuery, a JavaScript library that abstracts DOM manipulation and traversal, animation, event handling, and other common JavaScript tasks
HTML5 evangelism
Irish has created or was a key contributor to many websites in an effort to encourage browser and web developers to move to HTML5:[7]
- Move The Web Forward, a website encouraging web developers to learn more and participate in the development community
- W3Fools, a website dedicated to educating the web developer community about the problems with W3Schools, a popular web technology reference resource
- WebPlatform, a collaboration to create a comprehensive web technology documentation wiki similar to the Mozilla Developer Network. Participants include the W3C, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Facebook, and others
- Chrome Status, documentation of which HTML5 features have been implemented in Chrome and Chrome for Android
- HTML5 Readiness, a visualization of which HTML5 and CSS3 features have been implemented in which browsers
- HTML5 Rocks, a website dedicated to HTML5 education, tutorials, news, and more
- CSS3 Please, a tool for interactively learning and developing CSS3
- HTML5 Please, a reference for HTML5 features and when and how it is safe to use them in production code
References
- ^ "Discover | Adobe Creative Cloud". Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved 2016-07-25.
- ^ "Developer Interview: Paul Irish". 28 July 2014.
- ^ "Paul Irish on awesomeness". 28 May 2013.
- ^ "Paul Irish The HTML5 Hero" (PDF). Appliness (5). Adobe: 69–79. August 2012. Archived from the original (PDF; 105MB) on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
- ^ ".net Awards 2011: The winners!". 24 November 2011.
- ^ "Interview with Paul Irish". Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved 2016-07-25.
- ^ "Paul Irish on awesomeness". Creative Bloq. 2013-05-28. Retrieved 2019-06-18.