Tag: standards
.plan-26-23: Earth Embeddings, Emails Everywhere, and ERRNOOOs
TESSERA on the ESA homepage and at CVPR, GeoTessera 0.9 stabilising onto S3/Zarr, io-uring in OCaml, carbon credits in New Scientist and WSJ, and musings on internet malware again.
The protocol grows up
The AT Protocol is becoming an IETF standard. What that means and why it matters.
The Verification Gap: Why Preference Standards Can't Govern What They Can't See
Preference signaling standards like IETF AIPREF solve a real problem: making user intent machine-readable. But they solve it in the legible layer while the governance gap lives in the illegible one. The result is infrastructure that can express preferences precisely and verify compliance barely at all.
A Proposal for Voluntary AI Disclosure in OCaml Code
Proposing a voluntary, machine-readable AI content disclosure scheme for OCaml spanning opam packages, dune, and per-module attributes, aligned with the W3C AI Content Disclosure vocabulary.
.plan-26-13: Oxidised, standardised, and syndicated
Publishing the OxCaml Labs year-one review, POSSE and AI content disclosure for the web, adopting the geo-embeddings Zarr convention for TESSERA, action PROPL at PLDI, the death of the grant application, and NASA's new swathe lidar mission.
TESSERA now supports the Zarr geo-embeddings convention proposal
Community feedback reshaped our Zarr store layout — years became a dimension, shards got bigger, and we retired the TESSERA-specific convention in favour of a shared geo-embeddings standard that also covers other models.
A progress update on reading-flow
There's a First Public Working Draft of CSS Display 4, which includes the work on the new reading-flow property. The property aims to solve the issue where the source (and therefore tab) order of a page gets disconnected from layout when using CSS grid layout or flexbox. This is a problem I've been talking and...
Masonry and reading order
I recently wrote a post about the CSS masonry proposal on the Chrome for Developers blog. I was keen not to muddy the waters with anything that wasn't the main point of that post—which was to explain why the Chrome team felt that masonry should be specified outside of grid. Since then, a couple of...
The Efforts to Extend ActivityPub
ActivityPub has fostered a social web for millions of people. To grow, some developers believe it needs improvement. These are their efforts.
We Need Website-Level Color Scheme Preferences
Since a few months ago, my website has a dark theme. So today I decided to casually open a PR to the darktheme.club website. On this PR, it is asked what mechanism is used to enable the dark mode. I selected JavaScript. It is unfortunate, but it is a reality.
Why are we not still using tables-for-layout?
I was chatting with a couple of long-time web folk today. As often happens when those of us who lived through the browser wars get together, the talk turned to old browsers, and old hacks to get round the issues in those browsers. I was thinking through the timeframe of CSS becoming usable at all...
The Framework laptop and the world machine
My new laptop shows the extent to which the world in connected.
The web is good now
A couple of notes on Chris Coyier's recent talk at CascadiaJS 2022.
WebDriver
I didn't realise that there's a specification for controlling browsers. But there is.
Thunderbolt Road
How Thunderbolt, the ultra-fast connector that recently turned 10, started life with a completely different look. (Fun fact: $400 Thunderbolt 3 cables exist.)
Not-So-Missed Connections
Just like your pile of old chargers, the world of mobile connectors was always messy. Standards did not help. Will regulation?
Notes from a working group
Standards geek: "I think we need to establish a standard for representing poetry on the Internet. I've drawn up this draft which encapsulates stanzas inside an Atom feed. It's pretty simple; the spec fits on a page, so it should be easy to implement." Visual poet: "That's pretty cool, but what about visual poetry? You know, that Fluxus kind of stuff? Because you can't really separate that into stanzas." Standards geek: "Hey, you're right. I'd better create a new element for visual poetry." Vi
Silktide Sitescore website test
I reported the link to Sitescore at Silktide yesterday and wanted to do a fuller report today having been through the service a little more.
Brandchannel interbred
Recently brandchannel.com reviewed a commercial web site that I have spent the past five years dramatically improving. The site now conforms to WAI AA standards and is fully CSS driven.
Secret Ying Yang club
I noticed something interesting when I was using Bloglines this morning - both Eric Meyer's site and Mark Pilgrim's use the same favicon. Is it like a secret mark of the web standards in-crowd?
Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman
If, like me, you design web sites this is possibly one of the most important books I have ever read about the subject - Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman.