Monthly Archives: December 2007

Wither web standards? And a call for new browser wars

Dec 16th – 6pm

There’s been a flurry of activity in web standards land lately, with Opera taking on Microsoft in Europe over their failure to conform to web standards, while Andy “Malarkey” Clarke calls BS on the whole CSS Working Group thing, pointing to the complicity and corruption that comes with entrenched vendors having little to no incentive [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in The Web Arts, Web building | Comments (7)

Blogger adopts OpenID site-wide

Dec 13th – 11pm

Clarification: The title of this post is a little misleading, as Oxa pointed out. Blogger has only enabled OpenID commenting site-wide. The author regrets any impression otherwise.
In what has to be a positive sign of things to come, Blogger has taken the OpenID commenting feature from beta to live in a matter of two weeks.
This [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Citizen-centric Web, Digital Identity, Technology, Web building | Comments (3)

Ruminating on DiSo and the public domain

Dec 13th – 1am

There’s been some great pickup of the DiSo Project since Anne blogged about it on GigaOM.
I’m not really a fan of early over-hype, but fortunately the reaction so far has been polarized, which is a good thing. It tells me that people care about this idea enough to sign up, and it also means [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Citizen-centric Web, Digital Identity, Ideas, Open source, Social justice, Society & economy, Technology, The Web Arts | Comments (9)