Stephen Shankland of CNet published an article, Growing pains afflict HTML5 standardization. He sent me an interview email and quoted a small portion of the response. I believe he quoted me fairly. However, I wanted to publish the entire interview, so you can see the material not included. —begin interview— > –What are Hickson’s shortcomings? The […]
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Sam Ruby’s take on the CNet HTML5 article: Balanced piece that neither sweeps under the rug nor sensationalizes the differences that we are working through. To me, this is the same as saying, “Nothing to see here folks. Just be sure to step over the dead body on your way out.” I still have not had […]
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 […]
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 […]