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<h2 id="front-end-development">Front-end development</h2> <p>Irish has created, contributed to, or led the development of many front-end web development projects and <a href="/facts/JavaScript/XhhIIEsl">JavaScript</a> libraries:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Google_Lighthouse/kCvrTTnM">Google Lighthouse</a>, a tool for automated webpage quality analysis <a href="/facts/Web_performance/u9la6hEw">performance</a> metrics and recommendations</li> <li><a href="https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools">Chrome DevTools</a>, the developer tools built into <a href="/facts/Google_Chrome/4INfWq37">Google Chrome</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Modernizr/Asr4puoW">Modernizr</a>, a feature detection library for HTML5 and CSS3 features</li> <li><a href="/facts/Yeoman_(computing)/9ntfVvhu">Yeoman</a>, a suite of tools for a web development workflow</li> <li><a href="/facts/HTML5_Boilerplate/qjGtFw7w">HTML5 Boilerplate</a>, a template for HTML5 and CSS3 front-end development</li> <li><a href="https://bower.io/">Bower</a>, a <a href="/facts/Package_management_system/kEX4kx7g">package manager</a> for web developers</li> <li><a href="/facts/JQuery/YIqFG0ww">jQuery</a>, a <a href="/facts/JavaScript/XhhIIEsl">JavaScript</a> library that abstracts DOM manipulation and traversal, animation, event handling, and other common JavaScript tasks</li></ul> <h2 id="html5-evangelism">HTML5 evangelism</h2> <p>Irish has created or was a key contributor to many websites in an effort to encourage <a href="/facts/Web_Browser/2pfyymLs">browser</a> and web developers to move to <a href="/facts/HTML5/HBAxEAr6">HTML5</a>:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p> <ul><li><a href="https://movethewebforward.org/">Move The Web Forward</a>, a website encouraging web developers to learn more and participate in the development community</li> <li><a href="/facts/W3Schools/wn0Bkt14">W3Fools</a>, a website dedicated to educating the web developer community about the problems with <a href="/facts/W3Schools/wn0Bkt14">W3Schools</a>, a popular web technology reference resource</li> <li><a href="/facts/WebPlatform/EUhALFVg">WebPlatform</a>, a collaboration to create a comprehensive web technology documentation wiki similar to the <a href="/facts/Mozilla_Developer_Network/6FVgxmzm">Mozilla Developer Network</a>. Participants include the <a href="/facts/W3C/lGWmhF6M">W3C</a>, <a href="/facts/Google/GT9Sugza">Google</a>, <a href="/facts/Microsoft/nGIDDXdx">Microsoft</a>, <a href="/facts/Mozilla/FevL9Itn">Mozilla</a>, <a href="/facts/Facebook/0IhXFR6u">Facebook</a>, and others</li> <li><a href="https://chromestatus.com/">Chrome Status</a>, documentation of which HTML5 features have been implemented in Chrome and Chrome for <a href="/facts/Android_(operating_system)/nNyHb0xz">Android</a></li> <li><a href="https://html5readiness.com/">HTML5 Readiness</a>, a visualization of which HTML5 and CSS3 features have been implemented in which browsers</li> <li><a href="https://www.html5rocks.com/">HTML5 Rocks</a>, a website dedicated to HTML5 education, tutorials, news, and more</li> <li><a href="https://css3please.com/">CSS3 Please</a>, a tool for interactively learning and developing CSS3</li> <li><a href="https://html5please.com/">HTML5 Please</a>, a reference for HTML5 features and when and how it is safe to use them in production code</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.paulirish.com/">Official website</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Discover | Adobe Creative Cloud". Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved 2016-07-25. <a href="https://www.adobe.com/inspire/2012/04/interview-with-paul-irish.html" target="_blank">https://www.adobe.com/inspire/2012/04/interview-with-paul-irish.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Developer Interview: Paul Irish". 28 July 2014. <a href="http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/developer-interview-paul-irish" target="_blank">http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/developer-interview-paul-irish</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Paul Irish on awesomeness". 28 May 2013. <a href="http://www.creativebloq.com/html5/paul-irish-awesomeness-5135617" target="_blank">http://www.creativebloq.com/html5/paul-irish-awesomeness-5135617</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Paul Irish The HTML5 Hero" (PDF). Appliness (5). Adobe: 69–79. August 2012. Archived from the original (PDF; 105MB) on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 30 July 2013. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130116184354/http://www.appliness.com/code/Appliness%2005%20August.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20130116184354/http://www.appliness.com/code/Appliness%2005%20August.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>".net Awards 2011: The winners!". 24 November 2011. <a href="http://www.creativebloq.com/netmag/net-awards-2011-winners-11116624" target="_blank">http://www.creativebloq.com/netmag/net-awards-2011-winners-11116624</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Interview with Paul Irish". Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved 2016-07-25. <a href="https://www.adobe.com/inspire/2012/04/interview-with-paul-irish.html" target="_blank">https://www.adobe.com/inspire/2012/04/interview-with-paul-irish.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Paul Irish on awesomeness". Creative Bloq. 2013-05-28. Retrieved 2019-06-18. <a href="https://www.creativebloq.com/html5/paul-irish-awesomeness-5135617" target="_blank">https://www.creativebloq.com/html5/paul-irish-awesomeness-5135617</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>