Infrequently Noted

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 [...]

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 [...]

The time has come for the W3C to grab the mantle of the web, shake off its self-doubt, and move to a place where doing good isn’t measured by numbers of specs and activities, but by impact for web developers.