Nationality Greek Role Author Name Lea Verou | Website lea.verou.me Occupation Software developer Books CSS Secrets | |
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Born June 13, 1986 ( 1986-06-13 ) | ||
Cssconf eu 2015 lea verou the missing slice
Lea Verou (Greek: Λία Βέρου; born June 13, 1986) is a front end web developer, speaker and author, originally from Greece. Verou is currently a Research Assistant at MIT CSAIL, in David Karger’s Haystack group and an Invited Expert in the W3C CSS Working Group.
Contents
- Cssconf eu 2015 lea verou the missing slice
- Fluent 2014 lea verou the humble border radius
- Education
- Dabblet
- prefix free
- Prism
- References
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), among other projects. She has written articles for some of the biggest industry media, including A List Apart and Smashing Magazine.
Fluent 2014 lea verou the humble border radius
Education
Verou 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. Her background encompasses both technical development and visual design.
Dabblet
Dabblet is an open-source web application for rapid prototyping of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with syntax hilighting and inline previewers. The result is saved online to a GitHub Gist to allow sharing with others.
-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.
Prism
Prism is a lightweight, robust, elegant syntax highlighting library. It is a spin-off project from Dabblet. The project page had 23,000 unique visitors on its first day. WebMonkey devoted an entire new post to it. It is used in big industry websites like A List Apart and Smashing Magazine, Mozilla Developer Network, CSS Tricks, W3C Technical Reports, and Brendan Eich’s blog.