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Social Media

St. Louis Today violates commenter trust

The St. Louis Today staff did it again. The site asked a question of its readers: what was the strangest thing you’ve ever eaten. Evidently one person posted “pussy”. A crude answer, true, and a little vulgar, but also on-topic. At the most you’d expect the comment to be deleted, perhaps the person banned, if they’ve […]

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W3C

Change proposal for HTML5 dt/dd

Just posted an email to the HTML5 working group with my Change Proposal for dt/dd. This is in response to the dt/dd elements being redefined to be used with figure and details, as well as the dl element. I have a couple of other bug reports to file based on this work, as well as other items. I […]

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Social Media Specs W3C

HTML5 status and when not to tweet

I’m in the process of rolling out some change proposals and bug reports for HTML5. I had volunteered to help with reviewing MathML during Last Call, and submitting comments for the HTML WG. Unfortunately, the process did not go smoothly. In the meantime, this week was the W3C’s TPAC meeting, where all the boys and […]

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Just Shelley

Just a cat

It was the shoe clawing that left me uncertain. She was getting old, over 18 years old. Her arthritis was getting worse, but she could still make it upstairs: slowly and painfully, sometimes having to pull herself up with her front legs rather than push from behind. She had good appetite, always wanting to have […]

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Standards

November is HTML5 Month

I’m not particularly good about compartmentalizing my interests. They say we women are good at multi-tasking, but I must be an exception to the rule. I have sent off my first half of JavaScript Cookbook to my editor, and I hope to try to salvage an article I was doing for A List Apart, though […]