I found out that the W3C had transitioned the HTML5 attribute @longdesc to Candidate Recommendation (CR) status from a tweet by John Foliot: And now, @longdesc is an official W3C Candidate Recommendation: http://t.co/DZ2wu1mYfc – I believe @shelleypowers owes me a beer 🙂 — John Foliot (@johnfoliot) August 2, 2014 Yes, I believe I do owe […]
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For years I battled with members of the WhatWG and others over elements and attributes in HTML. Months, we’d go back and forth about the usefulness of the details element, or in passionate defense of the beleaguered longdesc. I wrote hundreds of pages in defense of RDF over Microdata; the virtues of SVG in addition to Canvas; and […]
homogeneity: noun composition from like parts, elements, or characteristics Not long ago, Molly Holzschlag tweeted an innocuous comment: I’d love to see a woman or group of women edit the HTML5 spec. It’d make for an interesting social experiment. Certainly would be a first. I re-tweeted her without additional comment, and that started a sequence […]
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If it had remained the irrelevant attribute
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The latest round of discussions related to longdesc (yes, still) was triggered by a revert request from Laura Carlson: As you know the editor made changes to the hidden section [1]. This biases an open issue [2] as it directly implements a material change from a change proposal [3]. The […]
This week in HTML5…in verse. So <time> is saved though it may be changed, and <data> is on the horizon. <hgroup> is going, you can hear it moaning, as HTML5 continues to wizen.