BurningbirdWeb and tech standards
Elon Musk’s Twitter antics are getting harder to ignore, so I’ve joined with others to look at social media competitors in hopes of finding that perfect Twitter alternative. Hint: there aren’t any. The Trouble with Tribel The first app I checked out is Tribel, a social media app created by Omar Rivero, also known as […]
Second update House just can’t wait to pass this bill. It goes to the Floor on Thursday. Note: there is no comparable bill in the Senate. Update In the ultimate of ironies, the Senate passed an amendment to their appropriation bill, that would require genetically modified salmon be given a GMO label. How to explain the inconsistencies? […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My response to a recent post in Google+ by Ian Hickson: You’re comparing apples to oranges, +Ian Hickson. There’s a world of difference between developing a specific piece of software and creating a specification. In addition, you’re also incorrect with your understanding of the ‘tech lead model’. You may have worked […]