Tantek Çelik
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Tantek Çelik is a Turkish-American computer scientist, currently the Web standards lead at Mozilla Corporation.<ref name="CNET">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Çelik was previously the chief technologist at Technorati.<ref name="WaSP">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He worked on microformats<ref name="NPR">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and is one of the principal editors of several Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) specifications.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He is author of HTML5 Now: A Step-by-Step Video Tutorial for Getting Started Today (Voices That Matter) (Template:ISBN).
Career
Çelik gained bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Stanford University.<ref name=netsquared>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=stanford>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="WaSP" /> He worked at Microsoft from 1997 to 2004, where he helped lead development of the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer.<ref name="WaSP"/> Between 1998 and 2003, he managed a team of software developers that designed and implemented the Tasman rendering engine for Internet Explorer for Mac 5.<ref name="BigWebShow">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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);<ref name="WaSP"/> he is credited on a number of recommendations relating to XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets due to this work.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref name="BigWebShow"/> and created the first reset style sheet.
Before working at Microsoft he worked in a variety of software engineer roles at Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corporation and Apple Computer.Template:Citation needed During his four years at Apple Computer (1992–1996), he spent most of his time on the OpenDoc project, first as a senior software developer and then as a technical lead.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1996, he left Apple to form a software development and consulting company specialising in OpenDoc development, 6prime, with another OpenDoc technical lead Eric Soldan, however in 1997, Aladdin Systems purchased 6prime's main product REV releasing it as Flashback.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
At Technorati, he led the adoption of better standards support (including microformats) throughout the company, including their website's front page.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was also involved with the special Election 2004 section of the website, including writing the initial version.Template:Citation needed He serves as a founder at the Global Multimedia Protocols Group.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:As of, Çelik began working<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> on IndieWebCamp, an effort to coordinate a community of people to build tools to complement and eventually provide an alternative to social networking services like Twitter and Facebook.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
He is the owner of the Twitter account @T.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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