BurningbirdThe impact of the BP oil spill is only now being felt, and yet we have demands from the oil industry and Britain, not only to “lay off” our criticism of BP (because British pensioners could supposedly starve to death if we don’t), but to allow any and all new drilling (because Louisiana residents will supposedly starve to death […]
I have a question for Mozilla, Opera, and Apple: why are you working against open standards? Why do you still support an organization, known as the WhatWG, that has proven itself to be detrimental to an open and inclusive specification development effort? Recently I wrote about a kerfuffle that happened within the HTML WG, when the editor, Ian […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This has been a long time coming, and not sure where it will go. It started innocuously enough: remove a paragraph associated with the alt attribute, about user agents using some form of heuristics to determine replacement text. It wasn’t associated with a bug—it predated the current decision process. It […]
In honor of Microsoft supporting SVG in IE9, Web Directions is hosting an application contest: create your best and most innovative progress element using SVG. Microsoft is providing the prizes, and they’re nice: a new laptop, XBox, and Lego Mindstorms kit. Tasty. I was inspired to create my own SVG progress graphic applications, using a well […]
Web Directions has created a No Bit, Sherlock developer challenge, with nice prizes such as a laptop and XBox for the person or persons who comes up with the most creative variation of SVG progress element. A nice play on the name (“no bit”), but even nicer prizes. I’m not participating in the contest, but couldn’t resist […]