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Lea Verou, PhD

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Lea Verou, PhD

@LeaVerou

Product, web standards, usability • @csswg Invited Expert • @w3ctag alum • CS/HCI PhD @MIT Also: 🐘 @[email protected] • 🦋 @lea.verou.me

Cambridge, MA / Athens, GR

lea.verou.me

Born June 13

Joined February 2009

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Lea Verou, PhD
@LeaVerou
Oct 16, 2025
Incredibly honored to have been awarded “Pathfinder for Standards” by @openjsf! 💛 Love the blurb too, made me blush! ☺️: “Lea is a rare person who has strong academic credentials, has helped create rigorous industry standards, but always focuses on the needs of real world users
OpenJS Foundation
@openjsf
Oct 16, 2025
Introducing 🥁🥁🥁 our JavaScriptLandia award recipients for this year! Beyond building new features, our recipients guide others, maintain essential systems, document the hard parts, and strengthen the community every step of the way. 💙 Congratulations to all! Read more about
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Lea Verou, PhD
@LeaVerou
May 22, 2025
Replying to @deltaozzimo
Do you also expect to sign paperwork when kids learn about other parts of the human body, like mouths, hearts, or intestines? If not, what’s different?
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Lea Verou, PhD
@LeaVerou
Nov 17, 2018
Replying to @javafour
If my rainbow hair keeps away men like you, that’s just an added bonus! But don’t generalize your poor taste to all men, give them some more credit. My fiancé loves rainbow hair even more than I do!
Lea Verou, PhD
@LeaVerou
Mar 22, 2020
Now that all modern browsers support SVG favicons, here's how to turn any emoji into a favicon.svg: <svg xmlns="w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 100 100"> <text y=".9em" font-size="90">💩</text> </svg> Useful for quick apps when you can't be bothered to design a favicon!
Lea Verou, PhD
@LeaVerou
Sep 28, 2018
I’m gonna start blanket adding the following rule to all my stylesheets: :focus:not(:focus-visible) { outline: none } Gets rid of the annoying outline for mouse users but preserves it for keyboard users, and is ignored by browsers that don’t support :focus-visible.
Lea Verou, PhD
@LeaVerou
Mar 3, 2019
🎙 *tap, tap* is this thing on? My husband @svgeesus and I are happy to announce that we have forked our DNA — and the merge was successful! — or, in other words, we are expecting a baby girl in early July 2019! 👶🏼
Lea Verou, PhD
@LeaVerou
May 22, 2025
Replying to @deltaozzimo
Holding their intestines is also not the same as holding their hand. Your point being?
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Lea Verou, PhD
@LeaVerou
Sep 15, 2020
Developer priorities throughout their career
Lea Verou, PhD
@LeaVerou
Oct 21, 2017
HTML Idea: <input type="country"> which would become a searchable dropdown with all countries and their flags. Wouldn't that be awesome?
Lea Verou, PhD
@LeaVerou
May 16, 2017
OMG I just released my work of the past 2yrs as OSS! 🙀🙀🙀 Introducing Mavo: Create Web Apps Entirely By Writing HTML! smashingmagazine.com/2017/05/introd…
Lea Verou, PhD
@LeaVerou
Feb 23, 2020
Every foo and bar in technical documentation or slides is a wasted opportunity. It fails to illustrate WHY what you're talking about is useful, what for, and to get your audience to relate. Nobody relates to foo and bar. People relate to use cases.
Lea Verou, PhD
@LeaVerou
Jul 21, 2019
Chris (@svgeesus) and I are thrilled to introduce Zoe Lilley-Verou. She was born via water birth, 10 days past her due date, on July 12 at 7:26am. We are absolutely smitten and are falling more in love with her every day 🥰
Lea Verou, PhD
@LeaVerou
Dec 19, 2022
1. Infinite scroll 2. Footer Pick one, you can’t have both. (You’d think this is common sense by now, but you’d be wrong)
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Lea Verou, PhD
@LeaVerou
Sep 3, 2018
6 years ago, I thought the shorter the code the better, no matter how cryptic it may seem to others. Now I realize that coding is communication. Not just with the machine, but primarily with other people, including your future self. Good code balances DRY with good communication.
Lea Verou, PhD
@LeaVerou
Dec 19, 2010
Bad: x = x? x : y Better: x = x || y Best: x || (x = y) #jstip (credits to @paul_irish)