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It made public news that Opera is sidelining the Presto engine for Webkit, something I expected before I knew. What is good for business and what is good for the Web are not the same. Opera’s business case for Presto has not been so […]

So the Bluetooth Special Interest Group goes for the “Smart” moniker to market multi-technology Bluetooth 4.0. Fine, as it were, though it reminds me of the e-moniker during the Internet bubble and the rest. It is common for consumer devices these days to get […]

Reply to How to include extended transcripts with video This is not written from WAI perspective, but also from the perspective of making video/audio WAI usable. Before jumping into syntax at the end I would like to consider the requirements for captions and transcriptions. […]

SVG Animation (based on SMIL) and CSS Animation offer some similar features for animating Web content. Harmonising these two technologies has been considered on a number of occasions but a path forward has yet to be established. In response to a feature-by-feature comparison of […]

…was the day (today) when I got the message on yellow background that “your draft has been discarded”. Exactly what led to this event I don’t know, Gmail didn’t tell, was it a keypress in the wrong area of the screen, or a connectivity […]

A blog entry titled “what is right with CSS” would be far longer, CSS may remain my favourite W3C specs, but on retrospect there are a number of things that haven’t worked out and should have.

Surely the third round of the ninth circle of hell would be filled up with the designers and programmers of Chinese Internet banking sites.

XKCD recently published the future and found through a good number of Google searches that finishing up HTML5 would herald the demise of newspapers and the Third Coming of Christ. Coincidentally the W3C declared that finally CSS 2.1 had reached Proposed Recommendation status, and […]