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Greg Whitworth

Greg works on the rendering engine of Microsoft Edge and is an avid advocate of enriching the web platform to empower web developers. He is a member of the W3C CSS Working Group and the CSS Houdini Task Force. Prior to working with Microsoft, he was a full time web developer for over a decade working on small/medium sites and web applications.

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