If you haven’t heard, today has been proclaimed #MollyDay, a day to celebrate and share our stories about Molly Holzschlag.
Keeping with the tradition that @monteiro started yesterday, I nearby declare today to be @mollydotcom Appreciation Day.
#MollyDayJared Spool @jmspool – Sep 5, 2014
Say something wonderful about @mollydotcom’s contribution to the world. Stories, things you learned, how she influenced your work.
#MollyDayJared Spool @jmspool – Sep 5, 2014
Whether you’re a web developer, designer, user experience professional, content strategist, heck, if you’re any type of web professional, what you do on the web has been influenced by the teachings and advocacy of Molly Holzschlag.
Author of more than 25 books, teacher, and open web evangelist, Holzschlag has been writing, teaching, and talking about web design, open web technologies, and accessibility since the 1990s.
When I first began working on the web in the mid-1990s, I read as many web design articles by Molly as I could.
I remember reading her books on XHTML, diligently following her code examples, and discovering how to use them in my web projects.
Never imagined I would have the opportunity to meet Molly in person and introduce her to Detroit and our web design community as she spoke not once but twice in one day.
I have wonderful memories of our Ann Arbor dinner the next evening with accessibility colleagues and friends Dylan Barrell, Keith Instone, Larry Rusinsky, and Scott Williams as we shared our experiences and personal stories.
Thank you, Mols for being there, and for being such an amazing person. And for opening my eyes to the wonders of web design and the open web.
Here’s what others are saying about #MollyDay:
Molly Holzschlag lobbied Bill Gates to make IE follow web standards.
Conversation with Bill Gates about IE8 and Microsoft Transparency #MollyDay
Jen Simmons · Sep 5, 2014
The M in HTML stands for Molly. The @mollydotcom
#MollyDayJoel Fisher· Sep 5, 2014
#MollyDay recorded conversation with the lovely and fab @mollydotcom for @webstock several years ago Conversation with Molly Holzschlag video and transcript
Roger Hudson· Sep 5, 2014
Thanks to you @mollydotcom I was introduced to a cause and found an answer to what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. #MollyDay
Moses Ngone · Sep 5, 2014
And a response from Molly:
Um, no one told me it was #MollyDay until just now – I’m very moved. Don’t know what to say other than thank you and love you.
Molly E. Holzschlag · Sep 5, 2014
