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September 14, 2023
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Tribute to Molly Holzschlag

  • September 14, 2023
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this morning, while reading the news, I learned that Molly Holzschlag had passed away. although this is not a DW-related topic, I thought we could pay tribute to to her on this forum.

 

after all, it's thanks to people like her, but also Andy Clarke, Mark Boulton, Jeffrey Zeldman, Eric Meyer, Christopher Schmitt, Dave Shea, Andy Budd...  that the web has been able to get out of the rut it's been in since HTML4.

 

for those who didn't know Molly, here's the article that once revolutionized the way I thought about CSS: Thinking Outside the Grid, followed by the preface to Andy Clarke's book Transcending CSS .

 

many thanks to Molly for all her contributions to the maturing of the web



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    Nancy OShea
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    Community Expert
    September 14, 2023

    Many years ago, I read one of her books, The Zen of CSS Design co-authored with David Shea.

    I'm fairly certain it was the inspiration for CSS Zen Garden — a one-page website styled in various ways with different stylesheets submitted by contributors. 

     

    For anyone who's interested, CSS Zen Garden is still up & running.

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    Legend
    September 15, 2023

    I think many of the names mentioned by Birnou have moved on now into different areas other than what they were once renowned for, all must be fairly old now, maybe sitting in their rockers looking back at what was a raw but exciting period for web development. For me it was the best period of web development, just ordinary folk using their talent, knowledge and skill rather than what we have today, multi billion dollar companies influencing the way they want us to do things with their offerings.

    B i r n o u
    Legend
    September 15, 2023

    concerning the CSS Signature, approached in the previous message, it is so old that it went out of web , either from archive... luckly I still have some personnal forum's archives 😉

     

    Legend
    September 14, 2023

    I've never come across Molly before, unlike some of the other names you mention, or maybe l have but the name just hasn't stuck with me. However anyone who has touched our lives/careers in some shape or form always leaves a great void when they pass over.. RIP Molly, thanks for your input.