Tag Archives: Anne van Kesteren

Tim Berners-Lee on government data

During TPAC, we sat down for a chat with the Director of the W3C, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. During the interview, Tim filled us in about his goals for this year with regards to getting the world’s  governments to open up the people’s data (yes “raw data now!”). We grilled him about what that means: does …

November 17, 2009 – 6:46 pm | By marcosc | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Standards Suck at TPAC 2009

We’ve never been really fast at Standards Suck. There is no rush since the end result of most standards is already known. This time around we taped the introduction to TPAC 2009 after the event, in a somewhat tired state on the day we would leave the Bay Area. Fun fact: arriving fifty minutes before …

November 16, 2009 – 3:47 pm | By admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Coming soon to CSS…

At TPAC 2008, Anne talked to the co-chair of the W3C’s CSS Working Group, Daniel Glazman. Daniel explains that at CSS-WG meeting, Dean Jackson, who recently left the W3C to work for Apple, put forward proposals for how to do CSS animations, CSS transitions, and CSS transformations – which, according to the WebKit blog, have …

June 5, 2009 – 1:00 pm | By marcosc | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Conforming to Karl

At TPAC 2008, Anne talked to Karl Dubost (twitter), who at the time was working for the W3C (he is now the development director at vdl2 in Montreal, Canada). Karl was, and still is, involved with the HTML5 activity. Karl was also involved in the W3C‘s Quality Assurance process as “the conformance manager”: something that, …

June 1, 2009 – 1:00 pm | By marcosc | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

TPAC Wrap-up

Whoa! Apologies for dropping off the radar! I was supposed to upload this video before Anne and I took off to Tanzania to climb Mt Kilimanjaro, but had a crazy week at work and didn’t get time. Anyway, here is the Anne’s, Lachlan’s, and Marcos’ take on TPAC. What we learned, some interesting (and hopefully …

November 30, 2008 – 2:30 am | By marcosc | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

Uhuru Peak

On top of the roof of Africa, Marcos and I took a nineteen second holiday break to bring you the following Standards Suck episode. It hopefully explains why we went on hiatus for a while. Publishing of the remaining episodes made during TPAC will hopefully resume shortly.

November 24, 2008 – 9:40 am | By admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Alex Mogilevsky on CSS and Internet Explorer 8

Anne interviewed Alex Mogilevsky here in Mandelieu during TPAC on CSS and the new Internet Explorer. Alex is a developer on the IE Team working on the new IE8 layout engine. He also participates in the W3C CSS Working Group.

October 22, 2008 – 6:13 am | By admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

Standards Suck at TPAC 2008!

Anne, Lachlan, and Marcos will be bringing you coverage from W3C’s most important event of the year: Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meetings Week (TPAC). It’s basically W3C’s social event where all the working groups have a chance to intermingle, exchange ideas, eat too much and get really drunk! yes, we will have the cameras …

October 19, 2008 – 10:06 am | By marcosc | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

W3C digging the XML grave

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.

June 28, 2008 – 11:07 am | By Lachlan Hunt | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (6)

Everything HTML5 but the kitchen sink

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 …

June 13, 2008 – 5:08 am | By admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off