Category Archives: standards

Inadmissible Arguments

August 15, 2012 – 7:16 am

I spend a lot of time working in, on, and around web standards. As a part of this work, several bogus perspectives are continuously deployed to defend preferred solutions. I hereby call bullshit on the following memetic constructs: “That’s just a browser caching problem.” Look for this to be deployed along standards-wonk classics such as [...]

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Hoisted From The Comments

April 17, 2012 – 3:40 am

Some stuff is too good to leave in the shadows. On my Bedrock post, James Hatfield writes in with a chilling point, but one which I’ve been making for a long while: ”every year we’re throwing more and more JS on top of the web” The way things are going in my world, we are [...]

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For Dave and David

April 4, 2012 – 7:49 am

Dave Herman jokingly accused me a couple of TC39 meetings ago of being an “advocate for JavaScript as we have it today”, and while he meant it in jest, I guess to an extent it’s true — I’m certainly not interested in solutions to problems I can’t observe in the wild. That tends to scope [...]

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Bedrock

April 1, 2012 – 10:41 pm

Jetlag has me in its throes which is as good an excuse as any to share what has been keeping me up many nights over the past couple of years; a theory of the web as a platform. I had a chance last week to share some of my thinking here to an unlikely audience [...]

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Misdirection

February 15, 2012 – 4:04 pm

As the over-heated CSS vendor prefix debate rages, I can’t help but note the mounting pile of logical fallacies and downright poor reasoning being deployed. Some context is in order. Your Moment Of Zen The backdrop to this debate is that CSS is absolutely the worst, least productive part of the web platform. Apps teams [...]

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