The further adventures of Chris Wilson, open web platform guy
I want you all to know I m still catching my breath after retiring, and I haven’t forgotten my promise to be more communicative. My first week “off” was really more like a bonus work week I spent Monday and Tuesday at BlinkOn 21, and Wednesday and Thursday nights remotely attending a W3C board meeting. [ ]
First, I d like to recognize how dormant my blog has been. I expect that to change a bit, because I have news to share. The clock just ticked past another momentous moment the end of my employment at Google. After fifteen and a half years only slightly longer than my tenure at Microsoft [ ]
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 the current Advisory Board election. I believe the W3C is slipping toward irrelevance. The situation is not hopeless, [ ]
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 your goal is to build awesome experiences for the web, you will be very poorly served by attempting to just emulate [ ]
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 broadly. This morning, someone on a photography list I m on asked: I ve been asked [ ]
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 make Chromium faster and more stable, it increases the diversity in the rendering engine space, and best of all, the [ ]
(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, including the always-incredibly-fun browser wars panel I got to participate in again (yay!) with some good friends. Jeremy, a couple of corrections 1) I [ ]
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 taken with it tend to be very unpredictable, with lots of blurriness (it s [ ]
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 as much. Robert, as I read your view, the competition has changed from WPF, Silverlight and Flash to iOS and Android, and accordingly, [ ]
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 both my non-compete clause and my non-solicitation clause have expired. I am now free to go work on whatever [ ]
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 my cohort Daniels Lee at Google I/O earlier that week, and then to wrap up the week, I ll be [ ]
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 :P). There are two events that I m helping run, though The League of Extraordinary [ ]
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 before, both North and South, and I m happy to see they re bringing the party to my home town; in fact, I think this [ ]
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 on, anyway? I m in the Developer Relations team for Google TV. In practice, I spend most of my time working together [ ]
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 experience for me; I can hardly begin to describe how much I ve learned, how many different experiences I ve had, and how many fantastic people I ve [ ]
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 interesting and sound coherent when you re not restricted to 140 characters. But sometimes I want [ ]
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 to go with the open web platform, rather than being one of the people who focuses on [ ]
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 Microsoft employees. Contrary to what Lawrence commented, I don t think Sam was targeting me with his post. Sam discussed this [ ]
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 took a little while for me to be comfortable with, but somehow after the first couple of times of getting [ ]
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 consistent updates, then you should be following me on twitter. But I m going to take a stab at blogging again, [ ]
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 yay! Kudos to Brendan and the other members of the ES committee for working it out.
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, though I shouldn t; but then, it s my blog. If you want to make snide comments [ ]
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.
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 who comments: Please, don t push this crappy format. XORing of files is not a legal solution. Actually, [ ]
I ve decided to move my blog over here, from its previous location over here.