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Moving my blog here.
I’ve decided to move my blog over here, from its previous location over here.
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Fonts: embedding vs. linking
I wanted to chime in with a few important points in response to the comments on Bill Hill’s post over on the IEBlog. There are a few people who are fundamentally missing the point: for example, user kL...
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Why I created a new blog
Mostly to shut people up about my blog not validating. :) Plus now I can control the look a lot more carefully. But expect I’ll be tweaking the styling a lot over the next few weeks.
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Ground rules for commenting on my blog
For my own benefit, I’m going to define the rules a little differently than on the IE Blog, or than my previous blog. No obscenities. Don’t be a dick. I get to violate this one if I feel like it,...
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Happy to see harmony.
Dion Almaer posted over on Ajaxian about the work of the ECMAScript committee, and Brendan Eich’s recent posting: http://ajaxian.com/archives/ecmascript-harmony-coming-together-after-oslo. In short...
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A New Year, a New Leaf
Seriously, I know I’m awful at consistently blogging. A lot of that is because it requires me to be in “public filter” mode, which is very time-consuming and stressful. But if you want to see...
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Seven Things About Me
I was tagged for the “seven things about me” meme by my friend Daniel Glazman. I’m painfully shy. No, really, I am. I’m uncomfortable taking up the sales clerks’ time. Fer reals, yeah. Public speaking...
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Sam Ruby
As he announced, Sam Ruby (my co-chair on the HTML WG) is expecting an offer to work for Microsoft. As a couple of comments have mentioned, this raises the question of both HTML WG co-chairs being...
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Leaving Las Vegas (er, the IE team)
After many years, and a lot of releases, I have left the Internet Explorer team. As IE8 was wrapping up, I realized that a more compelling role for me was mapping out where Microsoft as a whole needs...
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The “IE plateau”– a history lesson
Yeah. More frequently posting on my blog != once a year. I get it. More on that later. Since I mostly share on twitter, I usually don’t get around to writing out longer posts – it takes time to be...
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On to a New Stage
Today was my last day at Microsoft. I started working for Microsoft over fifteen years ago – in fact, switching into the IE team fifteen years ago this month. It’s been a tremendous learning...
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Six Weeks at Google
I started working for Google six weeks ago today. It’s been an interesting experience, and since I keep having the same conversation repeatedly, I figured I’d share all at once. What are you working...
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Keynoting at Web Directions Unplugged, Seattle May 12-13
I’m really pleased and excited to announce that I’ll be keynoting at the Web Directions Unplugged conference here in Seattle, May 12-13 2011. I’ve spoken at a couple of Web Directions conferences...
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Fun times ahead at SXSW 2011
I’m happy that I’m going to SXSW again this year – although, partly due to my job transition, I won’t be speaking on any panels this year (maybe next year I’ll get to be on the Browser Wars panel again...
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My upcoming week o’ fun…
I’d already mentioned that I was going to be a keynote speaker at Web Directions Unplugged here in Seattle on May 12th; I’ll also be presenting a session titled “Building Web Apps for Google TV” with...
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Tick.
Tick. The clock just ticked past 5:00PM PT September 21st, 2011, marking exactly one year since I walked out the doors of Microsoft as a former employee. The reason I care, of course, is that means...
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Promoting the Open Web, and Platform Competition
Robert O’Callahan wrote a post last week about Mozilla’s historical promotion of the open Web over proprietary platforms. There were some things in there that I agreed with strongly, although some not...
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Holga Lens for Canon EF Mount
For those of you not in the know, a Holga is a “toy camera” – it’s a plastic camera body, with a plastic lens, that retails for around $25. It uses 120 film – taking a 6cm x 6cm image. The pictures...
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Content Protection, fonts, and trolling
(Updated: eek! @marypcbuk pointed out that I had an unfinished sentence at the end of paragraph 3. Fixed. I blame the still-lingering SXSWScurvy.) Jeremy Keith posted some thoughts on SXSW,...
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Chromium’s Blink announcement
In case you haven’t seen the news yet, the Chromium project is building and releasing a new open source web rendering engine based on Webkit, called Blink. This is all goodness, in my opinion. It will...
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Outdoor shooting
One of the things I’m bad at is sharing advice in a broader public forum. I love sharing advice, but sometimes I respond just to one person at a time. I’m going to try to start sharing bits a bit more...
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The Web is not Poor Man’s Native
I read PPK’s “Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat” article with great interest. I agree quite strongly that the web does not need to emulate native to provide a powerful, vibrant app ecosystem. If...
View ArticlePlease vote for me as your first choice for the W3C Advisory Board
I’m here, in my nearly-abandoned long form web home, to ask for one simple thing. If you are able to influence the decision-making at a W3C Member company, please vote for me as your first choice in...
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