muses on how standards should be made: match reality? reverse engineering? precision? extensibility? timely? open source? patents? forking? accessibility?
Tag: w3c
Tolkien internet map
foothills of philosophy, patent peaks, etc.
Location on the Web
hopefully the W3C can finally agree on an API to set location
W3C Speed
In the time it took the closed and secretive XHTML WG to release a new version of this specification which did not fix 1 of its simplest problems, the open and transparent WHAT WG wrote an entire HTML specification.
The geoURI scheme
The ‘geo’ Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme is another step into that direction and aims to facilitate, support and standardize part of the interaction with geospatial services and applications. Accessing information about or trigger further services based on a particular place on earth shouldn’t be any harder than writing an email by clicking on a ‘mailto:’ link.
TinyURL everywhere
nice urls should be more prevalent
Fragment Search
Greasemonkey script which allows people to create URLs which link to content within a page without having control over that page. this is great for more accurate tagging, and adding structure where the original authors failed
The use of Metadata in URIs
This finding addresses several questions regarding Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). Specifically, what information about a resource can or should be embedded in its URI? What metadata can be reliably determined from a URI, and in what circumstances is it appropriate to rely on the correctness of such information? In what circumstances is it appropriate to use information from a URI as a hint as to the nature of a resource or its representations? Simple examples are used to explain the tradeoffs involved in employing such metadata in URIs.
a TAG finding on good URI design
Ian Hickson on the new HTML WG
since reaching PR is dependent on getting interoperable implementations, and since that requires the creation of a comprehensive test suite, I think 10 years for that is a reasonable guess, if the WG continues to work during that entire period
Reinventing HTML
It is necessary to evolve HTML incrementally. The attempt to get the world to switch to XML all at once didn’t work.
wow! sensible words on the future of HTML from timbl. there is yet hope for the web, and for the w3c
Gregor J. Rothfuss 