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Joined August 2015
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I wanna do a March Madness style bracket competition where everybody votes for their favorite HTML tags but there are 111 tags in the first round, which at 4 options per poll is 28 twitter polls just for round 1, who is going to vote in that many polls?
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New blog post: Bogo-XML Declaration Returns to Gecko hsivonen.fi/xml-decl/
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During form submission, newlines get normalized to CRLF. That newline normalization is more complex than you might think. Here is a deep dive on the recent @htmlstandard changes in that area: blog.whatwg.org/newline-norm…
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🎥 I've been trying to update how browser session history is spec'd so it's a bit more correct and modern. Here's a 10 minute talk on some of the edge cases & process. I think this has a target audience of around 3 people in the world, but anyway: youtube.com/watch?v=nZb0U3rF…
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The @htmlstandard is getting some amazing work done by @Timothy_Gu (fixing document.open() and thereby drastically simplifying the core architecture) and @zcorpan (defining the rendering of fieldset and legend elements and giving developers control over them). 🎉
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I've posted a straw-man proposal for Imperative Shadow DOM Distribution API here. Feedback is welcomed. github.com/w3c/webcomponents…
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Thanks so much to Donovan for this change and many other recent fixes! This closes out issue #173 (from 2015!) on the @htmlstandard, and makes the definitions of one of the more important types of attributes---enumerated attributes---much clearer. xitter.cf/htmlstandard/status/97…
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Here's a couple "good first issues" for anyone wanting to contribute to the @htmlstandard: - github.com/whatwg/html/issue… (fix a wrong link) - github.com/whatwg/html/issue… (change some wording)
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Wonder why the ever-fashionable HTML is built using Free Pascal? @Hixie explains: news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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37 contributors who have landed one or more patches. Merged over 250 pull requests in total. Almost 2 new contributors each week!
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HTML Standard now more community-driven: blog.whatwg.org/html-standar…
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Really, really happy about the rate and quality of community contributions to @htmlstandard. Check out github.com/whatwg/html/commi… and the PRs. – at Manhattan, NY
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Due to some heroic effort from @sideshowbarker it is now relatively easy to build the @htmlstandard locally: github.com/whatwg/html-build…
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