Paul Irish
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Paul Irish | |
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Born | July 23, 1982 |
Nationality | United States |
Education | B.S. in Technical, Professional and Scientific Communication from Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
Occupation | Developer Relations |
Employer | |
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 widely recognized as a thought leader and a leading 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]
- 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
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved 2016-07-25.
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- ^ "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.
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