Interview on W3C Blog
Here is a snippet from our conversation:
IJ: Any advice for W3C? Where to focus? What to change?
DM: I'd like to see specifications become standards more quickly. I understand why they take time but but it would be great to speed things up. Also, I'd like to see more developers and designers learn what to do "first hand" from the specifications. A lot of people get their information 2nd or 3rd hand from browser vendors. That also results in people creating apps that are specific to an old way of doing things.
AB: I agree that education of how to use web technologies the right way is important (as we said about vendor prefixes). It is important that people learn how to use features in a way that doesn't cause sites to fail on new devices, for example by using fallbacks.
We had a free-wheeling conversation around Opera, web standards, webkit monoculture, and what to expect in Opera 12. Many thanks to Ian Jacobs for conducting this interview!
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About this article
| Published in | ODIN blog |
|---|---|
| Date | February 1, 2012 |
| Author | Divya Manian |
| Tags | W3C |
| Original | Internet Archive |
Constantine VesnaThursday, February 2, 2012 9:39:40 PM
Also alerting community about dangers of mono-culture is good.
But .. i don't find the content of the article very interesting to myself, because all the stuff there has been posted in Opera press releases, dev.opera, dev.team or odin blogs numerous times.
Would be nice to hear about less speaked, but potentially more exciting stuff like:
- CSS Animations - why opera does not want to implement them, are there any objections to the draft ? or technical difficulties ? or competing spec ?
- CSS Grid Layout, proposed by Microsoft - looks so sweet, and is being implemented in webkit, yet no official word from Opera about it.
- ShadowDOM + Components + scoped css, the spec that might become a holy grail of enterprise / web application development.
- Clipboard events (opera is working on a spec, but it has no implementation) ? CSS 3D transforms ? Fullscreen API ? requestAnimationFrame / setImmediate ?
Divya ManianThursday, February 23, 2012 3:32:24 PM