BurningbirdI have an egg. A perfect egg. I am lost in admiration of my perfect egg. But I am hungry. I must break the egg. I break the egg. It is awful. Slimy, wet, with a bulbous yellow eye. And I am sad. But look! I have an omelet! A perfect omelet! I am lost […]
I had originally created a Planet SVG in order to bring together a feed of SVG items. Once the SVG IG created Planet SVG web site, for all things SVG, I redirected planetsvg.org to it. I still wanted a feed of SVG-related items, so I created the SVG Feed. Currently, the application queries SVG feeds once a day, […]
And with all the unpleasantness this weekend, including a comment breaking my XHTML, captured for posterity by the playful, puckish, Anne, I find that I have misunderstood one key element of the RDFa specification, and have embarrassed myself greatly. Why is every time I touch anything to do with the W3C or associated mailing lists, I […]
Sam Ruby I question the presumption implicit in the notions of “the” editor, and “the” spec. I reluctantly accept the notion that any individual spec development process need not employ processes requiring consensus or voting, but I reject any implication, however subtle, of inevitability or entitlement. Simply put, there needs to be a recourse if […]
I have spent too much time worrying about specifications managed by people who, frankly, don’t have a lot of respect for what I have to say. I am not a browser developer, specification author, nor do I fit within the narrow parameters of “people who are seen to be contributors”. Years ago, I defined the […]