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Money People Technology

An Appleless future

It is time to buy new computers. My desktop Windows computer is a 4+ year old Dell laptop with a burnt out LCD that I hook up to an external monitor. It’s running Windows XP, and could potentially be upgraded to Windows 7, but only with much wailing and gnashing of teeth. My laptop is […]

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Stuff

Skewing old

Amazon released a Kindle 2.5 update this week. The big news about the software upgrade is that it finally includes support for collections—being able to group books based on some criteria. This is the functionality we’ve been asking for since the Kindle was first released. Great! Great, except that the software upgrade is for Kindle […]

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HTML5 Specs

HTML5: end of one chapter, start of another

I had planned on providing more edits to my change proposals, but doing so is only throwing good time away on a hopeless cause. I can’t even get the HTML5 co-chairs to realize that by allowing those who proposed a counter-proposal to group all of the items in only one response, they’ve made individual discussion […]

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HTML5 Specs

Remove the Hidden attribute

My change proposal for Issue 95 is about removing the hidden attribute[1]: The HTML5 specification states the following about this attribute[2]: All HTML elements may have the hidden content attribute set. The hidden attribute is a boolean attribute. When specified on an element, it indicates that the element is not yet, or is no longer, […]

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HTML5 Specs W3C

On being an HTML5 deletionist

When last I posted, I was confident I would be finished with my change proposals for the HTML5 by now. Little did I suspect at how strong a reaction my proposals would have, or how emotional the discussions would become. Some of the responses were humorous, such as when I was called a “deletionist”, of […]