Notices by Karl Dubost (karlcow@mastodon.cloud)

Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One will be soon 20 years old. ❤️ Published on 15 December 2004.

https://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/

If you have never read it, I encourage you to do it. It's a milestone.

Things have changed a lot since its publication, and if you want to understand what the Technical Architecture Group (TAG) is up to these days, be sure to follow what is happening on the TAG homepage. https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/

#w3c

> En France, presque tout le monde se dit prêt à agir pour le climat. Mais alors, pourquoi on ne le fait pas ? Si la crise climatique est aussi existentielle que le disent les scientifiques du Giec, pourquoi est-ce qu’on ne se met pas tous à agir ? Faut-il faire peur, faire pleurer, informer ou donner envie ?

— Climat : pourquoi nos comportements ne changent pas assez vite https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/climat-pourquoi-nos-comportements-ne-changent-pas-assez/id1622382158?i=1000676595878 #podcast

On Fake Hannah Arendt Quotations

> The impulse to clarify, simplify, and “market” Arendt to a public trained on easy social media quotations is real.
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> Which raises a second question: does the alteration matter? And here, the answer is yes. And it turns out that this is hardly the first time that Hannah Arendt’s words have been altered and simplified to ease their public consumption.

https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/on-fake-hannah-arendt-quotations-2024-08-04

#w3cTPAC axiom:
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In any meetings, it will be very likely at a point, that there will be 3 to 4 ex-Opera (Presto time) people, now working for other companies.
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Opera Browser (Presto time) has been essential for the Web standards world by driving the technical work and teaching to engineers to participate.

This is an opportunity to improve #interop and #webcompat across browsers.

Read carefully the blog post and specifically the section "What Makes a Great Proposal?"

PS: Si vous êtes francophone et que vous aimeriez contribuer mais que vous avez du mal avec l'anglais, je peux vous aider.

https://webkit.org/blog/15942/get-ready-for-interop-2025-your-chance-to-shape-the-web/

François Daoust on stage respecting the color palette of the evening. He has standards! #w3ctpac

Fluctuat Nec Mergitur.

Welcome to a new browser!

> Ladybird uses a brand new engine based on web standards, without borrowing any code from other browsers. It started as a humble HTML viewer for the SerenityOS hobby project, but since then it's grown into a full cross-platform browser project supporting Linux, macOS, and other Unix-like systems. — https://ladybird.org/announcement.html

This is good for the Web!

Mr.Cloud has everything for your storage needs. #tokyo
#taito

Monday. Sunny. Sakura all out. What could go right? #tokyo

@evan Who is they? What is what? :)

That said I have had many times the interesting discussion while I was working at W3C with people asking me: "Why don't you force implementer X to implement web standard A?". The answer is indeed because W3C has no enforcement power and for good reasons. Industrial consortium vs Civil society.

There are a lot of careful discussions to have about enforcement of standards through regulations. Not an easy topic. Definitely.

There Are No Standards Police https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/03/13/voluntary

#webstandard

Going through some of my old photos. I found the photo where we discussed on May 18, 2004 in New-York (20 years ago), where should be developed the Atom feed format: #W3C or #IETF.

I was sure we took minutes. I found them again
https://www.w3.org/2004/05/18-atom-nyc

There was also a summary by Sam Ruby at the time.
https://intertwingly.net/blog/2004/05/23/First-Choice

On me demande à propos du gros tremblement de terre/tsunami en cours. J'étais au bord de l'océan aujourd'hui sur la côte est, face au Pacifique. Tout va bien ici. Le tremblement de terre est sur la côte ouest (la partie face au continent asiatique).

I have been asked about the ongoing big earthquake/tsunami. Today, I was near the ocean on the east coast (facing the Pacific). All normal here. The earthquake has happened on the west coast (facing the Asian continent).

#japan #earthquake

20,000 days. #today

#tokyo end of the ginkgo season

> When you consider the media landscape that both predates the web and that continues to dominate our lives, one defined by a handful of companies exercising a disproportionate influence on what can be said, when it can be said and by whom it is hard not to **understand the web as an intensely political act**.

— https://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2023/11/11/therapy/#wishful by @thisisaaronland