The Construction Of S5; Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Dom

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Eric Meyer

Humanely Wielding a Clue By Four: Reflections on Managing a Massive Mailing List for "The Construction of S5; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DOM" Who would try to turn a Web browser into a slide show? Eric Meyer, who built the surprisingly popular S5 format out of XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In this session, Eric will trace the evolution of S5 from work done by others to its current state, showing how a single XHTML document is turned into something resembling "PowerPoint Lite", including diversions into DOM scripting, dynamically adjusted CSS, and format compatibility. for "Humanely Wielding a Clue By Four: Reflections on Managing a Massive Mailing List" In its first three years, the mailing list css-discuss has generated nearly 60,000 messages (over 50 per day) and acquired over 5,500 subscribers. Despite this, its signal-to-noise ratio remains high and it is regarded as a very helpful and worthwhile community. List Chaperone Eric Meyer shares his experiences and reflects on being a benevolent dictator, outgrowing a home, augmenting the list with other resources, community direction, and warding off trolls, flames, and holy wars without trampling on everyone in sight.