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State of promises 23 Aug 2013 | 06:05 pm
A brief overview of the current state of promises as people have been asking me all over. We thought we were fully done, but decided on course-correction. Based on discussions with Mark and Tab, Domen...
URL: IDNA2003 19 Aug 2013 | 06:35 pm
Previously, in reverse chronological order: IDNA Hell, URL: IDNA2008, and URL: domain names. IDNA2003 consists of two important algorithms: ToASCII and ToUnicode. Both operate on a single domain labe...
Decade 4 Jul 2013 | 03:08 pm
Ten years now since First Item!. And five months since I started at Mozilla. Pretty sweet. Currently working on URLs again. In particular, file URLs. Does file: relative to file:///test/path yield fi...
London TAG F2F 3 Jun 2013 | 04:37 pm
Last week was the second reformed TAG meeting, this time with new chairs, and hosted by me at Mozilla in London. I felt that overall it went well, though there was quite a bit of repetition too. Getti...
Fetching URLs 23 May 2013 | 11:27 am
There are a ton of features in the web platform that take a URL. (As the platform is build around URLs, that makes a ton of sense, too.) XMLHttpRequest, , background-image, , @font-face, … The semanti...
Making the web platform more suitable for “apps” 14 May 2013 | 04:04 am
At Mozilla we’re trying to bring the web platform closer to what is taken for granted in the “walled gardens” of our time (Apple’s App Store, Google Play, and friends). A big thing we need to solve is...
Opportunists versus collaborators 6 May 2013 | 10:06 pm
Well it’s not possible to win this kind of thing. This is a continuous striving that people have done for a long time. Of course, there is many individual battles that we win, but it is the nature of ...
TAG F2F 22 Mar 2013 | 12:24 am
The W3C TAG meeting I attended in Boston went better than expected. I got to meet the rest of the group and we discussed a variety of interesting topics without ever getting too far into lalaland (alt...
CC0 14 Mar 2013 | 03:16 pm
Standards developed by the WHATWG are licensed under CC0 (variant of Public Domain that works globally). The HTML Standard is licensed under MIT for historical reasons. This is important for these rea...
New bank 20 Feb 2013 | 04:00 pm
Received an introductory email from my bank today. “Dear Customer,” it starts and it goes on to explain how online statements work. For instance, how can I be sure these emails are from my bank? “[W]e...
