Chris Van Rensburg

Zazzle UIZE JavaScript API

While having done JavaScript framework development from the early days of the language, Chris has successfully maintained a low profile and slipped under the radar, while simultaneously urging the early Netscape pioneers to implement a plug-in architecture and event system for HTML documents, and influencing Macromedia to adopt ECMA-262 as the basis for ActionScript. In the formative years of JavaScript, Chris worked at Thomas Dolby's Beatnik, Inc., leading development of their object-oriented framework for interactive audio in Web pages, the Music Object API. Currently, Chris works for Zazzle, Inc., standing alongside formiddable engineering talent at the forefront of developing rich, featureful, and mission critical client applications for the Web 2.0 era. The UIZE JavaScript API, instigated by Chris, has formed the foundation for client-side interactivity on the Zazzle Web site and
stands poised to become a major contender.