Lea Verou is a web standards expert, developer, and designer with a PhD from MIT in Human-Computer Interaction. She has worked as Product Lead at Font Awesome, helped shape the web as a member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group, and has been part of the CSS Working Group since 2012. Her open-source tools like PrismJS and Color.js are used by millions of developers worldwide. Lea is also the author of a bestselling CSS book, a frequent conference speaker, and an advocate for making technology simpler, more usable, and open for everyone.
210 articles from this blog
Web developer Lea Verou announces joining the W3C team to work on developer relations, web education, and standards design.
Introducing Prism, a lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter for code snippets with plugin support and semantic HTML.
An update to the -prefix-free library addressing CSS gradient angle changes in modern browsers to ensure compatibility.
A developer shares personal advice for giving effective technical talks, based on their experience speaking at international conferences.
Explains how to use regex lookahead to simulate AND, NOT, and EXCEPT operations for complex pattern matching.
Explores teaching approaches: starting with general rules vs. specific cases, using regex quantifiers as a primary example.
Explores the CSS animation-direction property, its values, and a proposed syntax change for better control over animation iterations.
Critique of non-standard CSS text masking and advocacy for using SVG as a standards-compliant alternative for text effects.
A guide to creating scrolling shadow effects using pure CSS and the background-attachment: local property, with browser support considerations.
An argument for why developers should sometimes write their own code instead of always using existing libraries, focusing on performance and maintainability.
A CSS technique using generated content to create flexible, multiline definition lists with just 2 lines of CSS 2.1 code.
Lea Verou responds to being falsely accused of promoting -webkit-only prefixes and discusses the CSS vendor prefix problem.
A guide to moving an element along a circular path in CSS without rotating the element itself, using transform chaining.
A guide to creating a simpler CSS typing animation using the 'ch' unit for character-based width, with browser support considerations.
An overview of the css3test project, a tool that comprehensively tests browser support for CSS3 features and specifications.
A developer's argument for using tabs over spaces for code indentation, focusing on personalization and tool independence.
Explores current limitations in web development that cannot be solved client-side, including templating, localization, screen capture, and accessing POST data.
Announcing the new Dabblet blog for updates on the web development tool, hosted on Tumblr with custom HTML5 theming.
A discussion on the design choice of overriding browser keyboard shortcuts in web applications to leverage user muscle memory.
Introducing dabblet, an interactive CSS playground with real-time updates, GitHub gist saving, and built-in vendor prefixing.
