Hixie

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by Hixie 15y ago
The "they" that "gave up" is a different group of people than the "they" who thought it was evil, by the way. The current group working on the contemporary HTML living standard just describes reality, by and large, so there was never really
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by Hixie 15y ago
HTML is a living standard and was last updated yesterday: http://whatwg.org/html The W3C Recommendation process is obsolete.
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by Hixie 15y ago
Isn't GMail a sufficiently powerful "private messaging" feature? You can send a message from anyone's profile if they've enabled the "Send mail" feature. Plus GMail already supports a federated protocol, so you can use this profile "send me
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by Hixie 16y ago
Yeah that's weird. I don't understand how that happened. If anyone happens to have IE2 around I'd love to be able to study this.
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by Hixie 16y ago
You can have a well-defined spec that's easy to understand without having to shoe-horn your API into HTTP's document-orientated semantics.
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by Hixie 16y ago
Sure. <video ontimeupdate="sendXHR(currentTime)" src="myvideo" controls></video> ...where "sendXHR()" is a five- to ten-line wrapper around XMLHttpRequest.
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by Hixie 16y ago
There's a ton of specs lacking editors. If you have anyone who can take over, let me know. We've been looking. ...and by "open" I mean anyone can join, contribute, and have a significant impact on the spec. The spec's development has been b
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by Hixie 16y ago
What's wrong with just "HTML"? I'm not sure what you mean by "<canvas> and friends" or what you meant by "HTML5" before.
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by Hixie 16y ago
Well we could have stopped progressing without renaming the spec. You have to make sure we keep improving the Web, and if we don't, take over! That's what we did to the W3C when they stopped, after all. (You can also join us. See http://wh
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by Hixie 16y ago
You don't have to work at Google to ask me a question. Just mail me (ian@hixie.ch), I'm quite happy to help people out. Just make sure you read the relevant spec first, since that's where I'll be pointing you (whether you work at Google or
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by Hixie 16y ago
The implementors _are_ the working group. Standards organisations don't make up standards without the implementors. :-) (At least, not successfully. Some do try.) Secret working groups aren't secret from the participants, so it wouldn't mak
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by Hixie 16y ago
The standards community is like this too. Just consider how many W3C working groups are secret, for example. You wouldn't believe how much push-back I get when I ask for everything to be public. (The W3C even has a second level of secrecy k
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by Hixie 16y ago
I love how the author uses omitted-</p> as their example, when that's one of the things that was actually already defined in HTML4 and isn't a syntax error.
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by Hixie 16y ago
<video> isn't ready yet because the implementations are very young, and they still have pretty basic bugs. We don't yet have a good comprehensive test suite for the API, and the API in fact is still in active flux (I'm literally cha
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by Hixie 16y ago
To be fair, <video> is hardly ready for mainstream use yet.
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by Hixie 16y ago
Seems to me you care quite a lot!
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by Hixie 16y ago
The W3C didn't kill it, it was Mozilla and Microsoft who decided they didn't want to implement it (for a variety of reasonable reasons) and me who decided to not continue working on a spec that didn't have all the browser vendors on board.
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by Hixie 16y ago
The airlines are clearly not ensuring that anything is perfect quality.
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by Hixie 16y ago
Good.
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by Hixie 16y ago
Or rent a car, for some reason.
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by Hixie 16y ago
That convention drives me batty. So much time wasted when trying to copy-and-paste those URLs.
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by Hixie 16y ago
30 minutes is less time than I've spent actually entering the country through that same airport.
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by Hixie 16y ago
Can't speak for everywhere, but from a British point of view, it's probably the opposite. Personally I basically only use Sir when I'm telling a stranger off. I guess it depends a lot on the tone of voice used. :-)
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by Hixie 16y ago
Hear hear.
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by Hixie 16y ago
If you're using HTTPS, the Referer is blocked by your browser.
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by Hixie 17y ago
Anyone who's been following this stuff knows that my opinion on microdata is only barely above my opinion of RDFa, so saying that I'm biased on this is pretty silly. I'd be perfectly happy to see both features die, I think they're both pret
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by Hixie 17y ago
No idea what the "real story" is here, or if there is one beyond what they've said. There's no patent review issue here, though, since the canvas stuff has already been published as FPWD by the W3C HTML working group in the HTML5 spec itsel
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by Hixie 17y ago
All of Apple's objections were public. (Also, Mozilla's objections to H.264, Google's opinion, Opera's position, Nokia's position, etc. They were all public.) There _have_ been some private discussions between various people interested in s