Stephen Shankland of CNet published an article, Growing pains afflict HTML5 standardization. He sent me an interview email and quoted a small portion of the response. I believe he quoted me fairly. However, I wanted to publish the entire interview, so you can see the material not included. —begin interview— > –What are Hickson’s shortcomings? The […]
Year: 2010
Sam Ruby’s take on the CNet HTML5 article: Balanced piece that neither sweeps under the rug nor sensationalizes the differences that we are working through. To me, this is the same as saying, “Nothing to see here folks. Just be sure to step over the dead body on your way out.” I still have not had […]
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JavaScript Cookbook on way to printers
We just finished the last of the quality control checks on the JavaScript Cookbook, and it is now on its way to the printers. The Table of Contents should be showing soon at the O’Reilly book web site, but I’ll give you a taste of what I covered: The usual suspects, such as String, Date, Math, […]
here are times I really miss the mark. From a past writing I stumbled across when looking for something else: if the web were any other industry—petroleum, pharmaceutical, airline, auto, electrical utility, and so on— allowing the companies who produce products in the industry free and unfettered reign to define the standards for their industries, […]
I disappointed folks with a recent email to the W3C HTML5 co-chairs, offering to withdraw my change proposals. The co-chairs nixed the idea, which is OK, but also have not provided a decision on these items yet. The unfortunate consequence of the new Decision Process is that the co-chairs have become the group bottleneck. I do […]