It is the true teacher who leaves the class knowing they have learned the most.
Tucson, AZ
Joined September 2006
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This has always nod at my personal sense of confusion. The vision of a very semantic document-based web for research and Science in Academia Etc using real semantics, aunt ologies 4 publishing collapsed as did everything declarative and we came to a world of web apps everywhere.
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Weather for good for bad for ugly for otherwise I don't believe innovation and the growth of the World Wide Web as an applications platform as well as a platform of the documents soon emerged unfortunately we took a loss at the w3c when the HTML xhtml w g lost its Charter.
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Oh yes kids something was afoot if only I could know then what I knew now? within several use with Frameworks and JavaScript itself then the iPhone and my very mixed feelings on HTML5 and here we were looking at application development for the World Wide Web.
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Talk about freaky on one side of me Douglas Crockfordd on the other none other than John resig. Here's these guys sitting on either side of this Miss give me my mark up CSS and accessibility has JavaScript the good parts to my right John JavaScript framework jQuery on my left.
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Got to meet up with Bill again and this time it was ideate which had problems of its own but we're still moving forward happened and the mix Conference of that year in Las Vegas was enormous. I sat down on the couch exhausted in one of the Showcase rooms.
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I pick it up and it's one of my friends from the Bill Gates Microsoft crew who said hey Molly still wants the annoying web standards girl back and so along with a new group of folks including Jonathan Snook Julie Lerman and the whole list of people at that second mix and mash
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Of course Matt Mullen Woods wonderful WordPress and other platforms begin to emerge including sweater which had already been taking off and Facebook as our primary social networks with bloggers and other independent blogs becoming the new of the day. The phone rings in my office
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For me it was one of the most exciting moments in web history to see those things come together this lasted a few years where evangelism and growth and better compatibility really started coming together along with other cool things like xmlhttprequest Ajax, restful development
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The one thing left out however was JavaScript and behavior and in the next few years as browsers began to evolve and Microsoft lose the long and Google became powerful and JavaScript via ecma and @BrendanEich as well as the Mozilla team Advanced JavaScript as well.
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And that wonderful book was born. The advantage of the book is that an extended the experience of what Dave had done other designers and developers who got involved and created one of the most beautiful web destinations proving content markup CSS and accessibility we're beautiful
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And so one of the best selling web design books in history Zen of CSS design was born as an idea. Dave lived in Vancouver I was traveling as well as living in Tucson Arizona we somehow figured out a workflow got with the designers picked out what we were going to work
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At this point the CSS zen garden had grown so large with so many brilliant beautiful design work and I went off to the Waterside conference who where the agency for book authors such as myself and I ran into New Riders publisher Nancy who said hey got any ideas Molly?
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We start talking and he's picking my brain about book writing and ideas and it comes upon us that hey maybe together with his design abilities and his genius idea and my book writing experience and organizational experience we could have a potential game-changer on our hands
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I finally pick myself up and was just humbled and in awe of an experience of knowing that we can change the world together even if we are apart. It was the moment is teacher became a humble student indeed. Fast forward a few months we meet up at South by Southwest in Austin Texas
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He adds by the way I'm the Dave if you've not seen it who's been working on the proof-of-concept project this CSS zen garden of course I've seen it I fell out of my damn chair and there was your Miss Molly not knowing whether to laugh cry or both so I did both
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And inspiring me to become a web designer. I've written a bunch of books and I've had a lot of encounters with Guys across the world who have the name Dave so it didn't hit me right away I wrote back a kind thank you and kept working when 5 minutes later he wrote me back.
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I was working on some book here in Tucson one day in my office and I get an email. The email was so polite and kind and said hey my name is Dave I want to thank you for inspiring me through one of your books to take my what I believe was an art degree or graphic design degree
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Juicy stuff! IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, any browser of the day was rendering now a to stack layer with markup and content in xhtml that was accessible, diverse beautiful. Fonts Dynamic CSS menus using no JavaScript and on and on a list of awesome transcending the constraints
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So this guy Dave in Vancouver started project where he did a proof-of-concept using more meaningful xhtml non presentational but what we would term semantic as in meaningful as much as possible use of elements to the content. So this guy Dave build a clean XHTML Hage with content
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