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I’m at the W3C TPAC, in Mandelieu, France, doing my small part to keep the web moving forward. It is always said that the best part of any conference is the non-standard face-to-face meetings: hallway chats, chance encounters, lunches, and dinners. I’ve been doing my best to take advantage of these moments, like hanging out [...]
October 23, 2008Technology3 commentsA good overview of the “demoable” bits of HTML 5 (it is hard or too boring to demo lots of the parsing, dom consistency, error handling changes).
September 26, 2008TechnologyNo commentsMatt Haughey talks about how weblog comments have become nothing more than 1-up showmanship.
His post gets to the heart of why I’ve disabled comments on my personal weblogs for the last couple year. When we started up this blog, I decided to enable comments because we do enjoy talking with family, friends, and strangers. Additionally [...]
August 28, 2008Technology4 commentsI’ll start by saying I’m by no means an accessibility expert, etc etc etc and this is just a general summary of the state of things… not an endorsement of any one proposal, method, group/faction/junta/cabal/etc.
If you were following but dropped out of the <img> & @alt discussion going on in HTML 5 for the last [...]
August 26, 2008TechnologyNo commentsEveryBlock is available in Seattle now and it is perfect for sifting through online records by local street address. For instance, I was able to easily look up our favorite grocery store, PCC Natural Markets in Fremont. From the EveryBlock detail page I bounced over to a list of recent inspections and I could see [...]
August 18, 2008Seattle, TechnologyNo comments