Playing Catch-Up
Seems events are overtaking even my most sarcastic musings. Too bad the Dems are doing this something like a year too late. They find their stones now? Oy.
View ArticleIn which I eat crow.
Ok, ok. I’ve done my bitching and moaning, for years in person and more recently in blog form. I’ve listened to the interminable discussions at conferences about how everyone knows exactly what’s wrong...
View ArticleOn The Care And Feeding of Spinning Disks
or: Why I spent last summer rebooting Windows or: How to compress several months of research into 50 lines of code and unblock a product launch, for fun and profit. Home parlor entertainment edition....
View ArticlePerformance Innumeracy & False Positives
tl;dr version: the web is waaaay too slow, and every time you write something off as “just taking a couple of milliseconds”, you’re part of the problem. Good engineering is about tradeoffs, and all...
View ArticleBrowser Wars (plural)
In a half hour, I’m going to be on the Web 2.0 Expo Browser Wars panel with a cast of incredible folks. A couple of weeks back, I had the privilege of doing something similar on a browser panel...
View ArticleWhy “class” Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
There’s a lot of “don’t turn it into Java!” in the comments on my last post, and I feel it needs a response — and not because I think there’s anything to like about Java’s class or type systems...
View ArticleThings the W3C Should Stop Doing
This is a quick thought as I’m working on something much longer (and hopefully more interesting) to be published in the next week or so. Also, I just want to re-iterate that what’s said here are my own...
View ArticleWhat A Breakup Would Look Like
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...
View ArticleStandards Are Insurance
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...
View ArticleFunction-ality
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...
View ArticleOverdue Credit Where It’s Due
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...
View ArticlePlease Vote
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...
View ArticleBits and Remainders
I’ve been working on an epically-long blog post on the Offline problem for something like two months now and it’s still not done. That’s not so much to tease as warn you; Frances thinks I should post...
View ArticleLayers of Confusion
I missed a Plus post by Ian Hickson back from August but I saw it today through the magic of the twitters. It contains quite a lot to quibble about, but I want to home in on something he wrote in the...
View ArticleTwo Governments, Both Alike In Dignity
Disclaimer: I’m engaged to Frances Berriman, the front-end lead at the UK’s Government Digital Service. She did not approve this post. It is, however, the product of many of our discussions. You’ll...
View ArticleI Swear This Blog Isn’t About Elections…
…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...
View ArticleComments.
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...
View ArticleWhy JavaScript?
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...
View ArticleFor Jo
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...
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