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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Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Interesting doings this week on the HTML5 video front. Brendan Eich of Mozilla has stated the organization will now provide native support for H.264. In Video, Mobile, and the Open Web (also cross-posted at his personal web site), Eich writes: What I do know for certain is this: H.264 is absolutely required right […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I only check in to the doings of the HTML WG at the W3C once a week. Most of my time is spent on my new book, Learning Node. Frankly, Node has been a refreshing change from the smoky labyrinth which is the HTML5 spec process. I’d check in with the Working […]
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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.