Maciej: "A number of WebKit developers (including from the Chrome team and the Safari team) have been discussing ideas for a new and improved timer API. We would like to serve the following use cases which we feel are not well served by the de facto standard (and now HTML5 standard) interfaces of setTimeout and setInterval..."
A weekly summary of the going-ons in the WHATWG usually on the topic of squabbles in HTML5 esp. what to do about the alt attribute in the img tag. Interesting stuff on charsets.
Henri Sivonen points out that, according to a W3C diagram designed by Ivan Herman, HTML (and specifically HTML5) is not a part of the Web technology stack. Neither are Javascript or XMLHttpRequest.
The diagram seems flawed in more than one way: e.g., what's up with the strange separation of XSL and XSLT in different layers and/or why is SPARQL not in the 'Semantic Web' box?
Speaker: Ian Hickson - As the HTML5 effort reaches its first big milestone -- feature completeness -- browsers are starting to implement it. It will be years before you can rely on HTML5 support when writing Web pages and applications, but you can start to experiment today to get a feel of what the new standard offers. This talk will explore some of the most recent implementations of HTML5 features.
"Readers and conference participants know that the more I write and talk about web standards, the more I point out that they really don’t exist. Step back with me for a moment: we wouldn’t need a web standards movement if there were standards! We continue to do the very best work we can to arrive at a standard of quality and professionalism. Sadly, however, despite a decade or more of web standards evangelism, we face the prospect of losing whatever influence we’ve gained these past years." I love Molly.