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• Why was JavaScript standardized by ECMA and not W3C? | 2013-11-29 | w3c | web standards | javascript

  I managed the relevant part of W3C at the time...

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• Secure Mashups: CSRF-resistent alternatives to WebID | 2011-07-26 | economics | security | web standards

  I think WebID is headed in the wrong direction. It separates authorization from authentication, which is widely believed to be a...

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• A VoIP puzzle | 2010-11-16 | web standards | phone | android

  Our home phone service is provided by a VoIP provider, ViaTalk. I have a VoIP client, sipdroid, on my smart phone. When the phone...

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• Putting the HTML5 genie back in the bottle in the name of web security? | 2010-09-29 | javascript | security | web standards | html

  There's a lot of wisdom in what Crockford continues to say about HTML5 and web security: The HTML5 proposal does not attempt to...

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• An invitation from the Inventor of the Web | 2010-07-13 | party | KC | collaboration | web standards

  Update: I heard from about 50 colleagues around the web last night. Fun! Tim has declared a #DanFest for Dan Connolly Wed July...

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• Web Directions North ski trip was a blast! | 2009-02-22 | mobile | conference | web design | DEN | travel | geo | web standards | html | skiing

  After my second morning of skiing with just me and my iPod, I was glad to find a message waiting on my mobile phone as I rode the...

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• From KC to MIT and back again | 2008-01-22 | KC | collaboration | programming | family | web standards

  My family is here in KC but my work is at MIT and Silicon Valley and Vancouver and Edinburgh and Beijing... mostly over the...

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• Technology that inspires... | 2008-01-18 | journalism | web design | travel | movies | music | management | web standards

  Computers... bah! frustration machines! They're slow, they crash, and they lose your work. The Internet just compounds the problem....

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