Category Archives: standards

Effective Standards Work, Part 2: Threading the Needle

June 13, 2018 – 11:00 am

The web standards process fails us too often. This series explores the forces at work, how we’re improving the situation, and how you can shape new features more effectively. “Part 1: The Lay of The Land” discussed persistent challenges in standards and forces that give rise to misunderstandings. It also described the ecosystem dynamics that […]

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Effective Standards Work, Part 1: The Lay Of The Land

June 12, 2018 – 12:58 pm

The web standards process fails us too often. This series explores the forces at work, how we’re improving the situation, and how you can shape new features more effectively. “Why don’t browsers match standards!” muttered the thoughtful developer (just before filing an issue at crbug.com). “The point of standards is so that everything works the […]

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Web Components: The Long Game

October 1, 2017 – 8:36 am

Mikeal Rogers reached out last week to talk about Web Components, which surprised me, but his follow-up blog post is essential, timely reading. Dimitri Glazkov, Alex Komoroske, and I started the project that designed and (for many years) iterated on Web Components with a few primary goals in mind: Enhance component portability Shrink the amount […]

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EWS Melbourne

January 19, 2016 – 2:12 pm

What follows is roughly the text of a talk I gave last week at the Extensible Web Summit in Melbourne. The Point of Extensibility Mark, apparently, “volunteered” me to give a lightning talk last night over a dinner that I wasn’t at, so apologies in advance if I run short or long. Something that comes […]

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