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Critters Legal, Laws, and Regs

This isn’t the end

I listened to, and recorded, the “debate” on SB 113 in the House today. First, my thanks for those brave souls who suffered the indignities heaped on them by Representative Loehner, aided and abetted by Tilley. I’ll have the folks’ names as soon as I can decipher who said what from the recording. I’ll also […]

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Critters

The Reps who voted against their districts

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The Jefferson City News Tribune has a list of the votes for SB 113 in the House. I’m focusing on those from Yes on B districts who voted to gut Proposition B by voting for SB 113. Republicans: My old friend, TJ Berry, who I got into a back and forth with last week, […]

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Critters

How much are the dogs worth?

Evidently, the welfare of the dogs and the vote of the people are worth $1.1 million to Governor Nixon and the kiddies in the Missouri Senate. According to a new story from Fox, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved Nixon’s 1.1 million request for additional inspectors, on condition that Nixon signs SB 113. So it doesn’t matter […]

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Diversity Specs

W3C HTML WG decisions and the ARIA meltdown

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. One last decision I want to touch on, for now, was the decision related to Issue 129 on ARIA Mapping. In the decision, the co-chairs sided with the change proposal that added new role mappings for several elements. An uncomplicated change proposal that should require only some small edits to the ARIA mapping […]

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Specs

The W3C HTML WG decision on RDFa prefixes

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. One HTML WG decision I agree with is the one associated with Issue 120 on RDFa prefixes. Considering that RDFa support in XHTML/HTML to this point has made use of prefixes, I don’t understand why we even contemplated not supporting prefixes just because RDFa is being ported to HTML5. Frankly, it’s […]