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Please Vote

May 1, 2012 – 4:30 am

If you’re a web developer, please vote in Paul Irish’s poll on browser support. The larger the population that votes, the more we can trust the answers, and the data is critical to making sense of how we collectively think about browser support. Go now. It won’t take long, I promise.

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Overdue Credit Where It’s Due

March 5, 2012 – 5:25 am

This is just the top of the backlog…there’s stuff still in my brain-bin from TPAC, but a couple of quick items worthy of a collective pip-pip!: MSFT Moves To More Aggressive IE Updates: Automatic updates work, and in conjunction with shorter development cycles they enable the process of progress to move faster. Kudos to MSFT [...]

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Function-ality

October 6, 2011 – 2:51 am

I’m sitting here in Derek Featherstone’s amazing a11y talk at Fronteers and I feel like I need to follow up the last post with a quick primer on the zen of function for (both of) the spec authors who read this blog. The reason it’s offensive to the JS hacker for WebIDL to disallow new [...]

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Standards Are Insurance

September 21, 2011 – 12:47 pm

I keep getting distracted from writing this long thing by responding to the discussion created by the last short-ish thing, but I wanted to explicitly call out one aspect, namely that standards are a form of insurance. More correctly — and apologies if this sounds like a Planet Money episode — vendors sell derivatives contracts [...]

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What A Breakup Would Look Like

September 21, 2011 – 11:12 am

Karl Dubost asked what a plan would look like for a W3C split along the lines I proposed in my last post. It’s a fair question, so let me very quickly sketch out straw-men while noting that I would support many alternative plans as well. The shape of the details might matter, but not as [...]

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