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• Post #2055810

  @RickByers @stubbornella " love how things are going in rendering / CSSWG." Yup. If the rest of the web platform was done like CSSWG, it would be a much better place.Real engagement by users, rapid iteration of specs/implementations, rigorous testing with real world implementations before calling something standardized ...

• Post #2055809

  @RickByers Thanks for the chart. All I can say is that trend toward zero was the opposite of the plan as I understood it when I retired in 2020. Seeing so many people on the Edge standards team moving on during the pandemic-driven tech bubble made me wonder if MS had flipped from a "contribute to the platform via code more than standards" strategy to a "free ride on Google" strategy. But I have zero supporting evidence.

• Post #2055808

  @RickByers I'm kinda heartbroken too, I thought the work we did to get Edge rebuilt on Chromium (and collaborating with great people like Shruthi on WHATWG governance) would be an inflection point in how a web platform commons was built. Oh well. But for what it's worth, I'm skeptical that Google could improve the situation by making Chromium less of an open source project. Rambling thread below ...

• Post #2055807

  @bkardell From bitter experience with a smoke detector way up near a 15 foot ceiling ... It gets power from somewhere, if not direct wired, then a battery, no? So there is probably a backup battery that will eventually die. Or a built-in non-replaceable battery with a supposed 10 year lifespan that you may be nearing. But my other cause of random beeps / getting out the ladder is dust that accumulates near the sensor. Try vacuuming the smoke detector maybe.

• Post #2055806

  @carnage4life "The defining characteristic of the culture under Steve Ballmer was complacency and a sense of hubris." Yep, there was a pervasive sense that "we tell the customers what to want, we don't ask them what they want", and "[x] is destined to succeed sooner or later, because we make it." Not to mention the focus on beating competitors rather than pleasing customers. I hope SteveB is humbled to ponder that retiring was...

• Post #2055805

  @timbray I don't share your enthusiasm for Tim's open letter ... back in the early days we thought web technology would improve society ... not that we must first improve society so that web technologies can work as designed.

• Post #2055804

  @bkardell You've been catching up on AC-Forum eh?

• Post #2055803

  @bkardell Which leads to fragmentation, conflict, dysfunction; the various factions (farmers, dump miners, smiths, merchants) all try to maximize their interests rather than the community's ...

• Post #2055802

  @bkardell Can't figure out how to end it though ... "sic transit mundus" like the gloomy end of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz or "The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been" (話說天下大勢．分久必合，合久必分) like the beginning of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms 😉