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It’s a Wrap! 31 May 2013 | 11:50 am
I’ve long been an advocate of wrapping (or “flowing” or “multi-line”) text in SVG. This is basic functionality, and people have been asking for it since SVG started. I’m also an advocate for moving fe...
WebFonts in SVG 30 Jul 2012 | 04:24 am
Several times recently, people have asked on IRC how they can use nice fonts with SVG. My answer in the long-ago past, when Adobe’s excellent SVG Viewer plugin roamed the Earth, was to use SVG Fonts d...
Divide and Conquer 9 Oct 2011 | 06:58 pm
I have Libertarian friends who think Ron Paul has a chance at the GOP nomination… My intuition is that they are engaging in wishful thinking. My best guess is Romney will take it, but I’m hoping for C...
Speaking in the Third Person 29 Aug 2011 | 06:24 am
This is just a simple essay on how I see the world, and how I came to that view, the first in a set of posts I’m labeling philosophy. There’s no real point to it, no political or technical agenda… jus...
Archived Link Thunderbird Extension 24 Aug 2011 | 04:21 pm
This week is our first Geek Week at W3C. The idea is to have a week where we improve our skills, collaborate with each other on prototypes and fun projects that help W3C, and to come up for air from o...
Retain Accessibility Immediately 30 Jun 2011 | 04:43 pm
There has been a heated argument recently on the W3C Canvas API mailing list between accessibility advocates and browser vendors over a pretty tricky topic: should the Canvas API have graphical “objec...
The Timble 12 Jun 2011 | 02:30 pm
Anyone who has seen Tim Berners-Lee do any public speaking knows that he speaks very quickly. Too quickly, in fact, for non-native speakers, and some native speakers, to follow along. The words seem t...
Smack versus Facts 1 Feb 2011 | 08:42 pm
Offered without comment. Post about HTML5 logo and overblown “controversy” surrounding it: 1,078 hits on the first day. Post about details on W3C touch events spec, including a roadmap and future p...
Getting In Touch 30 Jan 2011 | 09:15 am
Last week, I published the first draft (and subsequent updates) of the Web Interface specification, which defines touch events. This is the first spec from the new W3C Web Events Working Group. Peter...
HTML5 Logorrhea, or Use Your Inside Voice 25 Jan 2011 | 09:53 pm
I was involved in rolling out the new HTML5 logo for W3C; I wasn’t the person in charge, but I helped out with some aspects of it. The interesting thing to me was the reaction to the logo, aesthetics...
