A Developer I Admire — Walter Zorn

Thanks for sharing, I never heard about Walter Zorn, but I recall searching for an alternative to Raphael and I came across his 2D library. At the time I thought it was a clever hack, little did I know that the library was more than 10 years old and miraculously worked all the way back to Netscape 4.

I searched around for some of his work and came across this beautiful recumbent bike: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2009/06/29/sometimes-you-just-w..., even if I know nothing about bikes it's evident this is a masterpiece of craftmanship and design. I'm greatly saddened by his passing.

Sad to read this. I recognised his name, having seen the same domain name for years as really the primary effort towards making JavaScript graphic-friendly before the APIs were designed to make it do so.

It's a pity to think there's still no effective mechanism in place to prevent sites like this disappearing. But it also shows the importance of Wayback Machine.

Without a doubt, a talented developer. He made some very useful libraries. Sad to learn of his passing...