Tech blog posts offer sometimes gems for reading. Here a selection of articles, I have been reading, by Robert O'Callahan, John Resig, and Michael Sperberg-McQueen.
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Once Upon A Time, Web Standards Curriculum
Once upon a time, we started the Quality Assurance activity at W3C in 2001, one of the objectives was to find a way to improve the materials for communicating with Web developers. In the QA group, Snorre M. Grimsby (Opera) told me that we might find resources for producing educational materials. The discussion became quiet for a while and restarted in June 2006 with David Storey (Opera). As the same time, some people at WASP started a survey for defining requirements for a Web Standards Curriculum.
Getting closer to a standard for client-side cross-site requests
Good news today from Sunava Dutta of Microsoft's Internet Explorer team in regard to the W3C Access Control for Cross-Site Requests specification: Sunava writes that, as early as IE8 Beta 2, IE8 will ship the updated section of Access Control...
life without MIME type sniffing?
In a recent item on IE8 Security, Eric Lawrence, Security Program Manager for Internet Explorer, introduced a work-around to the security risks associated with content-type sniffing: an authoritative=true parameter on the Content-Type header in HTTP. This re-started discussion of...
The How-To for html 5 parsing
You have read a lot about the html 5 specification. You heard that there were hidden dragons and acid rains. But what about looking by yourself practically how html 5 parsing is working? There are already some tools to play with html 5.