BurningbirdAnd with all the unpleasantness this weekend, including a comment breaking my XHTML, captured for posterity by the playful, puckish, Anne, I find that I have misunderstood one key element of the RDFa specification, and have embarrassed myself greatly. Why is every time I touch anything to do with the W3C or associated mailing lists, I […]
Sam Ruby I question the presumption implicit in the notions of “the” editor, and “the” spec. I reluctantly accept the notion that any individual spec development process need not employ processes requiring consensus or voting, but I reject any implication, however subtle, of inevitability or entitlement. Simply put, there needs to be a recourse if […]
I have spent too much time worrying about specifications managed by people who, frankly, don’t have a lot of respect for what I have to say. I am not a browser developer, specification author, nor do I fit within the narrow parameters of “people who are seen to be contributors”. Years ago, I defined the […]
So, what am I doing when I’m not giving the HTML WG a bad time? I’ve been putting together a Hire-me page, as well as a page for my books. Both are linked in a new sidebar item, along with links to my Amazon Wishlist, and to donate to help defray the costs of my […]
Every once in a while, something comes along that is so well executed, it makes you want to jump up and down. That’s what the jParallax library, and the wonderful demos did for me. Don’t take my word for it. You have to check out the library and demos yourself. No, you really have to. (Thanks for […]