Jacob is a web tinkerer and Spartan at Microsoft, standards conciliator, music maker (piano, guitar), music listener (187+ concerts and counting) and general beer enthusiast.
Spartan is a project that has been in the making for some time now. It will be a matter of few months until users and developers alike will be able to try Spartan for themselves, but we can share some of the interesting bits already today. In this article, Jacob Rossi will cover the inside story of the rendering engine powering Spartan, how it came to be, and how 20 years of the Internet Explorer platform (Trident) has helped inform how it was designed.
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