Standards Suck http://standardssuck.org Unbiased journalism on Web standards since May 2008 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:11:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Advanced CSS Layouts http://standardssuck.org/advanced-css-layouts http://standardssuck.org/advanced-css-layouts#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:48:53 +0000 marcosc http://standardssuck.org/?p=11 Hi Standards Suck fans! Sorry for the delay between videos, we’ve all been really busy pumping out W3C specs and working on various things. Fortunately, Lachlan was allowed to leave his cave at Opera software and return to his native Australia for the 2008 Web Directions South Conference. While there, Lachlan caught up with author and veteran web developer, Kevin Yank, to discuss what sucks about today’s CSS support in browsers. Kevin discusses what developers really want from CSS, where browsers are at today with regards to CSS support, and using CSS table layouts in IE8. Do you agree with Kevin?


Advanced CSS Layouts from Marcos Caceres on Vimeo.

On the 20-24th of October we’ll be at the W3C’s 2008 Tech Plenary, where all the W3C Working Groups meet to share ideas drink and eat too much. We will have our trusty Web cams ready to catch all the action and get some great interviews. If you want us to interview anyone in particular, leave us a comment!

We are also working on a new design for the site so it doesn’t looks so sucky. Hopefully we should have something up before TPAC.

]]> http://standardssuck.org/advanced-css-layouts/feed GRDDL, bridging the interwebs? http://standardssuck.org/grddl-bridging-the-interwebs http://standardssuck.org/grddl-bridging-the-interwebs#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:05:04 +0000 marcosc http://standardssuck.org/?p=10 Marcos catches up with Harry Halpin, W3C’s GRDDL Working Group Chair and evil genius, at the Oxford Internet Institute in the UK. Harry talks about the use cases for GRDDL (Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages - yep, great name! :P ), an alternative way to view the Web, and gives some excellent suggestions as to how we can bridge the HTML Web and Semantic Web divide.


GRDDL, bridging the interwebs? from Marcos Caceres on Vimeo.

]]> http://standardssuck.org/grddl-bridging-the-interwebs/feed The test suite is not enough http://standardssuck.org/the-test-suite-is-not-enough http://standardssuck.org/the-test-suite-is-not-enough#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:57:46 +0000 marcosc http://standardssuck.org/?p=9 Lachlan caught up with Wilhelm Joys Andersen, Head of Core QA at Opera Software, who describes a secret plot to reveal bugs in web browsers and force them to obey the specified rules. As the world becomes overrun with test cases, he still claims it’s not enough.

]]> http://standardssuck.org/the-test-suite-is-not-enough/feed W3C digging the XML grave http://standardssuck.org/w3c-digging-the-xml-grave http://standardssuck.org/w3c-digging-the-xml-grave#comments Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:07:00 +0000 Lachlan Hunt http://standardssuck.org/?p=8 Anne van Kesteren sat down with Simon Pieters to talk about the impact of XML on the mobile web, who gave a surprising insight into its failure. They discuss the level of support for XML vocabularies in mobile browsers, and what mobile browsers have been forced to do for compatibility with legacy content.

]]> http://standardssuck.org/w3c-digging-the-xml-grave/feed Everything HTML5 but the kitchen sink http://standardssuck.org/html5-kitchen-sink http://standardssuck.org/html5-kitchen-sink#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:08:44 +0000 admin http://standardssuck.org/?p=6 Pattern theorists have suggested Steve Faulkner will be hosting this show, but this is not the case. In fact, it’s Lachlan and I, Anne, again. With Marcos adding our awesome music.

HTML5 has recently been published again by the W3C and this podcast introduces the new features and some of the old. data-* attributes, ruby annotations (not programming), global tabindex attribute, et cetera.

Documents that published by the W3C are HTML5, HTML 5 differences from HTML 4, and HTML 5 Publication Notes.

]]> http://standardssuck.org/html5-kitchen-sink/feed Steve Faulkner on WCAG 2.0 http://standardssuck.org/steve-faulkner-on-wcag-20 http://standardssuck.org/steve-faulkner-on-wcag-20#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:59:24 +0000 Lachlan Hunt http://standardssuck.org/?p=5 In London at @media 2008, Lachlan caught up with Steve Faulkner to talk about the WCAG 2.0 guidelines.

]]> http://standardssuck.org/steve-faulkner-on-wcag-20/feed Lachlan Hunt on Selectors API http://standardssuck.org/lachlan-hunt-on-selectors-api http://standardssuck.org/lachlan-hunt-on-selectors-api#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 23:49:34 +0000 marcosc http://standardssuck.org/?p=4 Anne caught up with Lachlan Hunt, editor of the Selectors API specification, in Oslo, Norway. Lachlan describes the purpose of the spec and who’s implementing it, as well as outstanding issues and fancy new features that the WebAPI Working Group wants to add in due course.

(We hope to put the original video online at some point.)

]]> http://standardssuck.org/lachlan-hunt-on-selectors-api/feed ARIA in HTML5 http://standardssuck.org/aria-in-html5 http://standardssuck.org/aria-in-html5#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 05:37:10 +0000 marcosc http://standardssuck.org/?p=3 Welcome to our two part discussion on ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) and HTML5.

During XTech2008, Anne and I had a chance to sit down and talk about the current state of the “ARIA in HTML5″ debate. Anne gives an overview of ARIA and the controversy over naming of ARIA attributes and makes some suggestions as to how the community can move forward.

Part 1:

Part 2:

Next week, Anne sits down with Lachlan Hunt, editor of the W3C’s Selectors API specification, to chat about implementations, open issues, and where that spec is headed.

(We will try to make the original video files available in due course. Flash sucks too, but it’s our best bet currently.)

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