Entries Categorized as 'Standards'

There and Back Again

Date August 20, 2008

To those just joining this broadcast, it’s not you, it’s me.  It’s taken me about a month to blog about last month.  Late July and early August were just really eventful.  I spent a week in Norway, where I attended what I suspect will go down in history as being a pretty landmark ECMAScript meeting.  [...]

Building the Web, One Spec at a Time

Date July 16, 2008

I’m admittedly being a bit glib in my title. Can innovation and advancement of the web platform occur at all, given the temporal straight jacket that standards bodies sometimes impose? There are certainly proprietary platforms that leverage the web (Flash and Silverlight) and developers do happily bivouac in them, building some fairly compelling [...]

Meanwhile, Back At The Ranch…

Date June 17, 2008

Sometimes, what goes around does come around. I first started playing with Mozilla, a project launched by Netscape Communications, in 1998. That was a whopping ten years ago.

SxSW ‘08 Redux via Epistolary Rumination

Date March 14, 2008


SxSW ‘08 | The End of History (Not)

Date March 8, 2008


Standards, the My Suite, and Summer

Date June 26, 2007

I believe in the general synchronicity of summer, and think June and July bring unexpected Jungian gifts. This is an eventful summer for me in many ways, but for now, a quick word on my professional life.
Firstly, buddy and fellow AOLer Kevin Lawver blogged with gusto about replacing me as AOL’s Advisory Committee Representative [...]

Scooped!

Date March 17, 2007


SxSW 2007

Date March 7, 2007


(Re)birthing Pangs: The HTML Charter Revisited

Date February 14, 2007

This post is about the rechartering of the HTML Working Group, and AOL’s stance on the subject. Cross posted from dev.aol.com

Joost!

Date February 5, 2007