Tag Archives: Lachlan Hunt

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

The fascinating world of i18n

During TPAC 08, Lachy got-a-chattin’ with Richard Ishida – the W3C’s Internationalization (i18n) activity lead. Richard gives an insight into all the complexities that the i18n activity is trying to deal with. Richard is a wonderful speaker with tremendously knowledgeable of all things 18n; he gives some great descriptions of i18n problems in this little …

June 12, 2009 – 1:00 pm | By marcosc | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Gsnedders’ Magical Spec Generator

At TPAC08, Lachlan and Geoffrey Sneddon (gsnedders) had a chat at TPAC about some interesting work Geoffrey has been doing on a spec generator that makes use of HTML5 parsing and some other interesting things. They also pay a salute to everyone’s favorite chroniqueur of the WHAT WG youth: Mr Lastweekinhtml5!

December 12, 2008 – 10:43 pm | By marcosc | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Ian Hickson on Editing HTML5

During TPAC, Lachlan caught up with Ian Hickson (Hixie), editor of the HTML 5 specification. Hixie discusses the tools he uses to gather and respond to feedback, which is fundamental to the open development of the standard. Hixie clarifies the whole “when will HTML5 be ready?!” thing and gives us some details about what part …

December 6, 2008 – 12:00 am | By marcosc | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

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)

Ben Millard on contributing to the W3C HTML WG

While relaxing by the beach in Mandelieu, Ben Millard and Lachlan Hunt had a chat about contributing to HTML working group. In particular, Ben discusses how he studied data tables used on the web and how that led to creating an improved algorithm for understanding the structure of a table, helping to improve accessibility.

October 24, 2008 – 8:55 am | By Lachlan Hunt | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

Chris Wilson on Internet Explorer 8 and the W3C HTML Working Group

Since we cannot get enough of the Internet Explorer Team here at Standards Suck we had Lachlan Hunt talk with Chris Wilson on his perspective of Microsoft’s new browser and his W3C HTML Working Group chairing hat. As you can see in the background France is still lovely which makes you wonder why we sit …

October 23, 2008 – 1:57 am | By admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

W3C Standardization Process: breaking through the FUD

While at Web Directions South, Lachlan caught up with Mike(tm) Smith, co-chair of the W3C’s HTML Working Group, to talk about the process of standardization at the W3C. Mike(tm) Smith, who is also a W3C team contact, describes what is standardization and how it relates to HTML5. Mike brings some reality to how standardisation of …

October 13, 2008 – 10:42 am | By marcosc | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Advanced CSS Layouts

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 …

October 2, 2008 – 8:48 pm | By marcosc | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (28)