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Paul Irish

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Paul Irish
Born (1982-07-23) July 23, 1982 (age 42)
NationalityAmerican
EducationWorcester Polytechnic Institute (BS)
OccupationDeveloper Relations
EmployerGoogle
Notable workjQuery, Modernizr, Yeoman, HTML5 Boilerplate
Websitepaulirish.com

Paul Irish is an American front-end engineer and a developer advocate for the Google Chrome web browser. He is an evangelist in web technologies, including JavaScript and CSS.[1][2][3][4][dubiousdiscuss] 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

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Irish has created, contributed to, or led the development of many front-end web development projects and JavaScript libraries:[6]

HTML5 evangelism

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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

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  1. ^ "Discover | Adobe Creative Cloud". Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved 2016-07-25.
  2. ^ "Developer Interview: Paul Irish". 28 July 2014.
  3. ^ "Paul Irish on awesomeness". 28 May 2013.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ ".net Awards 2011: The winners!". 24 November 2011.
  6. ^ "Interview with Paul Irish". Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved 2016-07-25.
  7. ^ "Paul Irish on awesomeness". Creative Bloq. 2013-05-28. Retrieved 2019-06-18.
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