Kodsnack 143 - The web standards bug

Fredrik talks to Aaron Gustafson about web standards. His origin story, how he got into web standards. How the standards work and who should get involved. The problems with prefixes and how we use them.

This episode was recorded during the developer conference Øredev 2015, where Aaron gave two talks.

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• Frameset
• Quark
• Dreamweaver
• Fetch
• Eric Meyer
• DOM level 0
• A list apart
• Jeffrey Zeldman
• XHTML
• COMDEX
• Molly Holzschlag
• South by southwest
• Filemaker
• Jeff Veen
• Jen Robbins - Web design in a nutshell
• Jeremy Keith
• Andy Budd
• Richard Rutter
• Clearleft
• The web standards project
• Glenda Simms
• Derek Featherstone
• W3C
• TPAC
• Indesign
• Pagemaker
• CSS shapes
• Web platform incubator community group
• SVG
• Network information API - seems to have been shut down
• Vendor prefixes
• Edge - Microsoft’s successor to Internet explorer
• Alex Russell on vendor prefixes and their problems
• WHATWG - Web hypertext application technology working group
• Web SQL
• Firefox phones did not last
• Zork
• Basecamp
• Harvest
• Adaptive web design, second edition
• Aaron’s two talks

• You’re the web standards guy
• Who falls into web standards and how does it happen?
• Between midnight and 5 a.m.
• Things were starting to stabilize a bit on the web
• The only way to build a solid foundation
• The web standards bug
• Before coming to the web
• In the trenches every day making web pages
• Help make other specs better
• Vendor prefixes have bitten us in the ass
• We don’t experience the web the way everyone else does
• I can’t believe I want them to make their ads more accessible