Tag Archives: TPAC 08

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

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)

…and we’re back!

I (Marcos) took a brief break while I was finishing my PhD and I moved to Norway to work for Opera Software, which has been pretty awesome I have to admit. Anyway, we have a few left over videos from TPAC 2008 that I never got around to publishing… So, sorry about that! Over the …

May 31, 2009 – 7:36 pm | By marcosc | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

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

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)