Tantek Çelik

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**Tantek Çelik**, of San Francisco, is a computer scientist of Turkish-American descent[*citation needed*] and was the Chief Technologist at Technorati[*citation needed*]. He is one of the principal editors of several CSS Specifications.

He gained a following[*citation needed*] during his time at Microsoft (1997-2004), where he worked on the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer[*citation needed*]. Between 1998 and 2003 he managed a team of software developers that designed and implemented the Tasman rendering engine for Internet Explorer for Mac version 5[*citation needed*]. 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)[*citation needed*], due to this work he is credited on a number of recommendations relating to XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets. 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[*citation needed*].

Before working at Microsoft he worked in a variety of software engineer roles at Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corporation and Apple Computer[*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*[*citation needed*]. 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*[*citation needed*].

At Technorati, he led the adoption of better standards support (including microformats) throughout the company, including their website's front page[*citation needed*]. He was also involved with the special Election 2004 section of the website, including writing the initial version[*citation needed*]. He serves as a founder at the Global Multimedia Protocols Group and has Bachelor's and Masters degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University  .

He is the older brother of the actress Aysan Çelik[*citation needed*].

## References

1. ↑ Bos, Bert; Tantek Çelik, Ian Hickson, Håkon Wium Lie (19 July 2007). "Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification". *W3C Technical Reports and Publications*. World Wide Web Consortium. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
2. ↑ "W3C Technical Reports and Publications - view by editor". *W3C Technical Reports and Publications*. World Wide Web Consortium. 13 July 2009. http://www.w3.org/TR/tr-editor#CelikTantek. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
3. ↑ HTML Working Group. "XHTML 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)". *W3C*. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/. Retrieved 2007-02-06.
4. ↑ Hakon Wium Lie; Bert Bos. "Cascading Style Sheets, level 1". *W3C*. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS1. Retrieved 2007-02-06.
5. ↑ "Stanford Computer Science Masters Alumni". http://cs.stanford.edu/People/masters\_alumni. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
6. ↑ "Tantek Çelik, WaSP Emeritus". *Web Standards Project*. http://www.webstandards.org/about/members/tantek/. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
7. ↑ "Tantek Celik - Chief Technologist, Technorati". http://www.netsquared.org/2006/conference/confirmed-presenters/tantek-celik-chief-technologist-technorati. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
8. ↑ "Tantek Çelik, A List Apart Speaker". http://shadow.aneventapart.com/speakers/tantekcelik/. Retrieved 2009-07-13.

## External links

* Tantek's personal homepage including blog

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