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The Phony Balance Benchmark 9 Jul 2013 | 04:30 pm
There’s a palpable tension in my shoulders as I tap this out — I know already that this post will create cringe-worthy responses and name calling and all the rest. But on we plod. A friend called out...
For Jo 4 Jul 2013 | 02:31 pm
This was originally drafted as response to [Jo Rabin's blog post] discussing a meetup the W3C TAG hosted last month. For some reason, I was having difficulty adding comments there. Hi Jo, Thanks for...
Why JavaScript? 3 Jul 2013 | 10:07 am
One strain of objection I often hear about the project of making the web more extensible is that it implies travelling further down the JavaScript rabbit hole. The arguments often include: No other s...
That Old-Skool Smell, Part 2 21 Jun 2013 | 03:39 am
The last post covered a few of the ways that the W3C isn’t effective facilitating the discussions that lead to new standards work and, more generally, how trying to participate feels as though you are...
That Old-Skool Smell 19 Jun 2013 | 09:24 pm
One of the things that the various (grumpy) posts covering the recent W3C TAG / webdev meetup here in London last month brought back to mind for me was a conversation that happened in the TAG meeting ...
Thoughts On A Job Done 13 Jun 2013 | 11:18 pm
Most of the time, when a bit of software you work on floats out of your life and into the collective past, there’s a sense of mourning. But that’s not how I feel about Chrome Frame. The anodyne offici...
s/Future/Promise/g 7 Jun 2013 | 05:54 pm
One of the things I’ve poured myself into this year — with a merry band of contributors including Domenic Denicola, Anne van Kesteren, Jake Archibald, Mark Miller, Erik Arvidsson, and many others — ha...
Comments. 7 Jun 2013 | 04:30 pm
A reminder: I approve comments manually. I don’t mind vulgarity, wrongness, or even the mild ad-homenim…as long as it contributes to the discussion. Should you post a comment here that does not contri...
Use-Case Zero 24 May 2013 | 10:00 pm
Some weeks back I lobbed an overly terse “noooooooooo!!!!!” at the W3C Web Application Security Working Group over revisions to the CSP 1.1 API; specifically a proposed reduction of the surface area t...
I Swear This Blog Isn’t About Elections… 23 May 2013 | 07:09 pm
…but if it were, there would be time to cover the W3C Advisory Board election. This is truly inside-baseball stuff, as most of the AB’s work happens in member-only areas of the W3C website and most of...
