About

September 21st, 2011

Paul Irish is a front-end developer who loves the web. He is on Google Chrome's Developer Relations team as well as jQuery's.

He develops the HTML5 Boilerplate, the HTML5/CSS3 feature detection library Modernizr, CSS3 Please, and other bits and bobs of open source code. (Look in the sidebar)

He can tweet, IRC, podcast and blog, too.

Paul wants you to make really fucking cool shit. Web sites, web apps, and games. Tell him what he can do to make it easier for you to build cool shit. For real.

I am not looking for a new position, but if you're aching to read more.. here's my resumé.

A very-formally-written timeline of shit I've done

(I mostly update this because my memory is absolutely abysmal, so I need to overdocument things sometimes. :)

: Published the comprehensive guide to How Browsers Work written by Tali Garsiel.
: Shipped HTML5 Boilerplate 2.0
: Contributed an IndexedDB adapter (primarily written by Vivian Li) to Lawnchair
: Released matchMedia.js polyfill for media query testing.
: Launched Mobile Boilerplate 1.0, a trusted template for building mobile Web applications. Lead Developer: Shi Chuan. (Press: RWW)
: Launched HTML5 Boilerplate 1.0, with support for six web servers, beautiful and comprehensive documentation, and a site optimizing build script.
: Yepnope went 1.0. I worked with Alex Sexton and Ralph Holzmann on code, marketing, and developer relations. It's all theirs, though. :)
: WHATWG HTML5 Spec of developers launched. I worked on the search and consulted on the design with Ben Schwarz.
: JSHint launched. I sorta project managed it, though Anton Kovalyov is the lead. (Press: RWW, BadassJS)
: Launched Spoon.net IE browsers on iecss.com with Jonathan Neal and some w3fools
: Led and launched W3Fools, a campaign for better web developer documentation. Afterwards, we discussed changes with both Mozilla and W3Schools and expect both to improve. (Press: RWW, RWW(2))
: Launched Mothereffinghsl.com, to promote color choosing with HSL instead of RGB.
: Launched enable-javascript.com, a collaboration with Toni Podmanicki & Jeremy Hill, to promote a singular and internationalized way to enable javascript in your browser.
: Launched mothereffingtextshadow.com. (Press: dropshado.ws)
: Popularized the term "polyfill" with presentations and resources.
: Launched the HTML5 Boilerplate with Divya Manian, a set of templates for web developers collecting best practices and making an ideal project starting point. Very actively maintaning.
: Started as a Developer Programs Engineer at Google on the Chrome team.
: Proposed Webfont Obfuscation: An interim solution? to the webfont community with Ethan Dunham, to shortcut waiting for WOFF adoption by adding similar protective measures to TTF.
: Launched HTML5 Readiness with Divya Manian to evangelize the idea that HTML5 is not a massive thing we're waiting for but rather features that mature differently. (Press: Lifehacker, Mashable, DF)

Other assorted stuff I think is rad

  • Wrote the forewords of Pro HTML5 Programming and HTML5 & CSS3 in The Real World

  • Proposed, defended and saw the inclusion of HTML5 data-* attribute support in jQuery.
  • Helped get the Google Chrome Frame/IE=Edge header into Rails core.
  • Somewhat project managed the IEPP (HTML5 Shiv) v2 release and distribution . Alexander Farkas was lead dev.

… a work in progress / everything is a draft …

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