UI Architect at Orbitz Worldwide
Mark Meeker is an Architect on the UI Engineering team at Orbitz Worldwide. He leads the the UI Engineering team responsible for building the presentation tier of online travel sites Orbitz and CheapTickets in the Americas and ebookers in Europe. His focus is on building rich, interactive and internationalized sites that are standards-based and accessible. Previous to Orbitz, he helped develop Britannica.com and earned a M.S. in Software Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He rarely blogs, but when he does it is at http://markmeeker.com.Presentations by Mark Meeker
Microformats: The What, Where, Why, and How
Microformats may be small, but they are starting to appear everywhere. You can use them to expose all types of information on your site and turn each page into an API.Merging Ajax and Accessibility
Can't we all just get along? Introducing Ajax and making a site accessible each present their own unique challenges to development teams. Most see these as being in direct competition with each other.Coding the UI: Lessons Learned from ebookers and Orbitz
When Orbitz Worldwide released a new generation of its global technologyplatform there were some lofty goals for the UI. They wanted to build a
presentation tier (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) that would meet the goals of
internationalization, accessibility, have rich Ajax interactions, and be
faster and easier to develop in.