It’s long past time for me to return to technical writing, if only because I need a respite from the battle against Trump and his evil minions.
It helps that there is a lot to be excited about—in a good way—in the tech world. The Node community seems to be moving beyond its early growing pains and is starting to stabilize. There’s still occasional drama, but not enough to make you scream in horror and run away.
My beloved SVG is really coming into its own with widespread support. I’ve been waiting years for this. There are great libraries to make it easier to build applications, but for me, the holdup has always been browser support. Now, I can party.
CSS! Can you believe what you can do with CSS now? Not to mention that the W3C has really its act together when it comes to documenting what’s happening with specs.
Speaking of specs…HTML is no longer held hostage by a tin-plated dictator. I’m sorry, did I say that out loud? I did notice that the working group mailing list is extremely quiet nowadays. This is because all the action has moved to GitHub. Probably more efficient. Not as fun.
Excellent news about the W3C and IDPF merging their efforts.
The vision to align Publishing and Web technologies and create a new roadmap for the future of publishing became official today with the announcement that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) have combined organizations.