Tantek Çelik, of San Francisco, is a computer scientist of Turkish-American descent and was the Chief Technologist at Technorati.. He is one of the principal editors of several CSS Specifications.
He gained a following during his time at Microsoft (1997-2004), where he worked on the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer. Between 1998 and 2003 he managed a team of software developers that designed and implemented the Tasman rendering engine for I...
more
Tantek Çelik, of San Francisco, is a computer scientist of Turkish-American descent and was the Chief Technologist at Technorati.. He is one of the principal editors of several CSS Specifications.
He gained a following during his time at Microsoft (1997-2004), where he worked on the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer. Between 1998 and 2003 he managed a team of software developers that designed and implemented the Tasman rendering engine for Internet Explorer for Mac version 5. During his time at Microsoft he also served as their alternate representative (1998-2000) and later their representative (2001-2004) to a number of working groups at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), due to this work he is credited on a number of recommendations relating to XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets. While working for Microsoft he also developed the "box model hack" that is used by web designers to work around the Internet Explorer box model bug.
Before working at Microsoft he worked in a variety...
less
