Chris Wilson

I am currently a Developer Advocate at Google Inc.

I began working on web browsers in 1993 when I co-authored the original Windows version of NCSA Mosaic, the first mass-market WWW browser. After leaving NCSA in 1994 and spending a year working on the AIRMosaic web browser for SPRY, Inc., I joined Microsoft's Internet Explorer team as a developer in 1995.

Over the course of 15 years, I represented Microsoft in many standards working groups, in particular helping develop standards for Cascading Style Sheets, HTML, the Document Object Model and XSL through the W3C working groups. I also developed the first implementation of Cascading Style Sheets in Internet Explorer – the first, in fact, in any mass-market web browser. Beginning in 2001, I spent a few years working on the WPF project, but rejoined the IE team in 2004 to lead the IE Platform and Security team, then moved to work on the Javascript engine team in 2009.

In September of 2010, I left Microsoft and joined Google’s Developer Relations team, and I currently work on the Google TV project in the Google Seattle office.

In my free time, I take pictures, go hiking and snowshoeing with my wife and two young daughters, and scuba dive in the cool waters of Puget Sound.