Bruce sits down for a chat with Hixie. This is a good insight into the past and present process behind HTML.
A trip down memory lane with Håkon.
It’s not like the web has been done. This is history in the making. The web is only 25 years old. It’s going to be around for a long time, so there are lots of things to develop.
Five years ago, Hixie outlined the five metrics that a competitor to the web would have to score well in:
You come at the king, you best not miss.
Hixie is proposing a new addition to HTML but separate from HTML5, "to enable video conferencing from HTML applications."
PPK has posted some excellent thinking on calendar widgets to Ev’s blog.
A new presentation from the wonderfully curmudgeonly Steven Pemberton, the Nosferatu of the web. Ignore the clickbaity title.
I don’t agree with everything he says here, but I strongly agree with his preference for declarative solutions over (or as well as) procedural ones. In short: don’t make JavaScript for something that could be handled in markup.
This part really, really resonated with me:
The web is the way now that we distribute information. We will need the web pages we create now to be readable in 100 years time, just as we can still read 100-year-old books.
Requiring a webpage to depend on a particular 100-year-old implementation of Javascript is not exactly evidence of future-thinking.
Thanks, Apple. Thapple.
An email to the HTML working group.
You can quote me on this markup pattern.
Something is happening.
Agreeing and disagreeing with Divya.