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, […]
Author: Shelley Powers
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 […]
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Thousands impacted
The 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 […]
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The W3C bites back?
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 […]