Molly Holzschlag has died
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Molly Holzschlag has died
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Re: Molly Holzschlag has died
#2This is super sad. I learnt HTML and CSS from following tutorials by Molly, even met her a couple of times at conferences. I really can't understate how much this woman shaped the web as we know it today. Rest well Molly!
Re: Molly Holzschlag has died
#3I met her a few times at Opera in Oslo, and she was truly somebody who embodied the spirit of the utopian promise of the web. A smart and charming woman.
Its weird- she suddenly popped into my head the other day having not thought about her for years, and I was wondering how she was doing.
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#4Oh that sucks. She's one of the few authors whose books about the web actually helped me build stuff. 60 only, way too young.
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#5Her Twitter bio read, "It is the true teacher who leaves the class knowing they have learned the most."
Such a mesmerising human being!
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#6That is sad. She was with the web from its early days (her first book on the subject is from 1996), taught a lot of people, and bridged several communities: design, web standards, and accessability
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#7If you were actively building for the Web in late 1990s and early 2000s, you would have definitely stumbled on Molly’s work in one way or the other.
The web will miss Molly E. Holzschlag.
Now, I could not find her on LinkedIn; she must have deleted her profile. She was reaching out to people when her illness progressed (I think it was LinkedIn). I remember feeling sad watching her videos, talking about how the treatment was tiring her.
It was always an excitement in the early days of the web when you are in a discussion forum and Molly was around too, answering to the list question. Looking up old emails, she owned https://www.molly.com but this seems to be something else now.
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#8Sad to hear this. As I wandered away from frontend work more and more over the years that's a name I haven't heard in a while, but in the late 90s/early 00s you definitely stumbled over her work here and there if you were around in those circles. When frontend development encompassed mostly HTML and CS (no JS).
Re: Molly Holzschlag has died
#9If you were actively building for the Web in late 1990s and early 2000s, you would have definitely stumbled on Molly’s work in one way or the other. The web will miss Molly E. Holzschlag. Now, I could not find her on LinkedIn; she must have deleted her profile. She was reaching out to people when her illness progressed (I think it was LinkedIn). I remember feeling sad watching her videos, talking about how the treatm…
It's really sad. It looks like financial hardship hit hard and she decided to sell it to afford medication.
https://web.archive.org/web/20151211202252/http://www.molly....
https://web.archive.org/web/20151204202343/http://www.molly....
https://web.archive.org/web/20150711215305/http://www.molly....
https://web.archive.org/web/20160202163909/http://www.molly....
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#10I think in this case, it would be OK to add [mollydotcom] to the title. That's how I knew her, not by her last name.