Building a physical <blink> tag!


This is the latest of my many terrible lockdown-induced ideas. I'm saving money on commuting. So I'm spending it on tech-crap I really don't need. I bought a new laptop sticker. Anyway, enough waffle, here's the end result: This uses 2-frame lenticular printing. History No browser supports the <blink> element any more. It used to make text blink. It was a silly idea that got out of hand. And now I have summoned it back to life in physical form. I am bad. Please don't report me to…

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Updating all the examples in the HTML5 Spec


A screenshot showing the difference between two text files.

I'm currently helping to edit the HTML5 specification. As part of our preparations for HTML5.3 I've started going through the provided examples and improving them. This blog post explains the what, why, and when of the process. You can follow along on GitHub. (As part of my job, I'm lucky enough to be on the W3C's Advisory Committee. This is a personal blog post. If you think my ramblings reflect either my employer or the W3C, then you aren't tall enough to ride the Internet.) How is the…

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London Web Standards - State of the Browser


Photo of me holding a microphone. I'm wearing a T-Shirt with the HTML5 logo on it.

Here's the introduction I gave to London Web Standards for their State of the Browser conference. Slideshare seem to have screwed up some of the formatting, but here are the slides. State of the Browser - London Web Standards from Terence Eden Full details of the day on Lanyrd. Thanks to Nick and the rest of the team for inviting me. It was an excellent day full of demos, discussions, and debates. …

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