A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of joining my colleague Amal Hussein and her pals Justin Ribeiro and Leon Revill on the Web Platform Podcast. Amal invited me to record the podcast after discussing the challenges of standards development organizations over lunch, where I emphasized that developing open standards is a much different …
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Last week, I attended the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Leadership Summit in Sonoma. The sunny weather and great wine was a treat, but spending time talking with others about the challenges of web standards and the open source ecosystem was a privilege. Though there were a lot of great talks¹, the real draw of the …
I had the pleasure of chatting with Dan Shaw, Tara Manicsic, and James Snell earlier this week about Node.js and the Web Platform on an episode of Always Forward. I especially enjoyed making Tara’s acquaintance, hearing everyone’s “web origin stories,” and of course geeking out a bit about the tangled world of web standards. The …
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The Node Foundation graciously invited us at the JS Foundation to run a parallel track at Node Interactive earlier this October. It was a bit last minute, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to participate in a panel on Open Source sustainability alongside Erin McKean, Tracy Hinds and Maggie Pint. The conversations we had …
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We’re done arguing over the importance of web standards. Many advocacy websites created to promote web standards such as Chris Heilmann’s Web Standards for Business and The Web Standards Project haven’t been updated since the mid-2000s. Accessibility, stability, quality control, and ease-of-use are just a few of the reasons modern web developers cite as to …
