Tag: standards
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Netscape's Untold Webstories
Back in 1996, Netscape promised to publish a series of articles about making the best of the Web. With help from the Wayback Machine, let's see how that turned out for them, and learn a little about late-1990s web design as we go along.
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.well-known/feeds
.well-known/feeds is a draft standard by which a site can publicise an OPML-based list of feeds (or other metadata) associated with it, that I literally dreamed-up last night. What do you think?
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How a 2002 standard made 2022 bearable
Somewhere, in another timeline, the P3P standard is alive and thriving and saving us from cookie/privacy popovers.
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Just when I thought I'd seen every conceivable XML data format with an approved MIME type (!) I discover @mamund's Maze+XML, a format for describing orthoganally-connected squares of a maze.
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.well-known/links in WordPress
Dan implements a WordPress plugin to support Jim Nielsen's proposal for .well-known/links.
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Ireland and the UK Aren't In The Same Timezone!
Dan is surprised to find that Ireland isn't actually in the same timezone as the UK, and looks into how any why this is.
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CSS4 is here!
Peter-Paul Koch of QuirksMode proposes that CSS4 should be declared a "thing", for marketing reasons, and Dan agrees.
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Sandwichware: Machines Talking to Machines About Humans
How are we better, Dan wonders, at making conversational interfaces than interoperable standards? Why are we inventing sandwichware?
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Evolving Computer Words: "GIF"
People think of GIFs as animations for the Web, but that's only a fraction of their story.
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Proposal to allow specifying a text snippet in a URL fragment
Chrome's implemented an experimental feature to allow deeplinking to arbitrary text content, which is awesome (with Dan's comments).
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Why do book spines have the titles printed the way they do?
The orientation of the title printed on the spine of anglophone books is dictated by ISO 6357. Wrongly.
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RFC-20
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The choice of this encoding has made ASCII-compatible standards the language that computers use to communicate to this day.
Even casual internet users have probably encountered a URL with “%20” in it where there logically ought to be a space character. If we look at this RFC we see this:
Column/Row Symbol Name
2/0 SP Space …