Web Directions

Chris Wilson is the Internet Explorer Platform Architect at Microsoft. He’s worked on web browsers since 1993, when he co-​​authored the first ver­sion of NCSA Mosaic for Windows. Since 1995, he’s worked on Microsoft’s web plat­form. In this 14-​​year-​​running saga, he’s inflicted good (first imple­men­ta­tion of Cascading Style Sheets in IE) and bad (over­lap­ping <B> and <I> tags) on the world, and fig­ures his karma will be even by 2012 the way he’s going.

In his free time, he enjoys pho­tog­ra­phy and hik­ing with his wife and young daugh­ter, and scuba div­ing in the chilly waters of Puget Sound as a PADI Assistant Instructor. With any free money, he replaces the cam­eras he’s destroyed by tak­ing them under­wa­ter for dive pho­tog­ra­phy. Occasionally he remem­bers to share his thoughts on his blog, but more fre­quently updates his Flickr account.