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Is there anything we can practically do to support this guy? I think he gets a lot of stuff right and I want to show my support. But I have no idea how to do

Is there anything we can practically do to support this guy? I think he gets a lot of stuff right and I want to show my support. But I have no idea how to do that other than posting a comment on HN. Probably not what he had intended.

GeneralMayhem 13y ago
If you want to support him personally, he has a book on typography also currently at the top of HN, which includes a page with products he offers (fonts, and books) and his email for the various money-sending platforms. If you mean supporting his cause... yeah, I don't know. I'm not on the W3C board either. http://practicaltypography.com/how-to-pay-for-this-book.html http://practicaltypography.com/how-to-pay-for-this-book.html
mbutterick 13y ago
Hi, this is Matthew Butterick. I wrote "The Bomb in the Garden." Yes, there is something you can do to support me — well, forget me, I'm not important. But the question I'm interested in is important. So if more people started thinking about the question, started having conversations about the question, tried to answer the question (on HN or elsewhere), that would be great. The question is this: Based on its 20-year track record, is the W3C equipped to keep the web competitive over the coming 5, 10, and 20 years? (And if not, what should replace the W3C?) The issue of "20-year track record" is important. The W3C has been around long enough that it can be — it must be — evaluated by its performance, not by its promises. Furthermore, the notion of "competitive" is increasingly important, as alternative media platforms make inroads against the web (as I discuss in the article) Bottom line, I want the web to win. And it's not winning. It's falling behind. But we need to be willing to ask the hard questions about how it got here. We need to hold the W3C's feet to the fire. We need to agitate for the web we want. Because in the end, it's not the W3C's web, it's not Google's web, it's OUR web. And if we don't like the web we end up with, we'll have no one to blame but ourselves.

GeneralMayhem 13y ago

If you want to support him personally, he has a book on typography also currently at the top of HN, which includes a page with products he offers (fonts, and books) and his email for the various money-sending platforms. If you mean supporting his cause... yeah, I don't know. I'm not on the W3C board either. http://practicaltypography.com/how-to-pay-for-this-book.html http://practicaltypography.com/how-to-pay-for-this-book.html

mbutterick 13y ago

Hi, this is Matthew Butterick. I wrote "The Bomb in the Garden." Yes, there is something you can do to support me — well, forget me, I'm not important. But the question I'm interested in is important. So if more people started thinking about the question, started having conversations about the question, tried to answer the question (on HN or elsewhere), that would be great. The question is this: Based on its 20-year track record, is the W3C equipped to keep the web competitive over the coming 5, 10, and 20 years? (And if not, what should replace the W3C?) The issue of "20-year track record" is important. The W3C has been around long enough that it can be — it must be — evaluated by its performance, not by its promises. Furthermore, the notion of "competitive" is increasingly important, as alternative media platforms make inroads against the web (as I discuss in the article) Bottom line, I want the web to win. And it's not winning. It's falling behind. But we need to be willing to ask the hard questions about how it got here. We need to hold the W3C's feet to the fire. We need to agitate for the web we want. Because in the end, it's not the W3C's web, it's not Google's web, it's OUR web. And if we don't like the web we end up with, we'll have no one to blame but ourselves.