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: Something I wrote in the W3C Authentic Web Mini Workshop’s Zoom chat:Another implicit assumption (flaw) that is often a part of "purely technical solutions" is the neglect or ignorance (innocent naïveté) of existing technical solutions. A technical proposal should not be praised for what it claims to solve. A technical proposal must be evaluated by what marginal difference or advantage does it provide over existing technologies. Any technical proposal that ignores prior technologies is itself doomed to be ignored by the next technical proposal.In addition to the slide presentations (links to come) in the mini workshop and Zoom verbal discussion which was minuted (link to come), there was a lot of very interesting discussion in the Zoom chat, which was not minuted. Sometimes such quick back & forth can help inspire summarizing of points which one had not previously written down. I was encouraged by a fellow workshop participant to blog this one so here it is!#W3C #credweb #credibleWeb #authenticWeb #technology #technical #proposal #technicalProposal #history
's status on Wednesday, 12-Mar-2025 17:45:00 EDT
Something I wrote in the W3C Authentic Web Mini Workshop’s Zoom chat: Another implicit assumption (flaw) that is often a part of "purely technical solutions" is the neglect or ignorance (innocent naïveté) of existing technical solutions. A technical proposal should not be praised for what it claims to solve. A technical proposal must be evaluated by what marginal difference or advantage does it provide over existing technologies. Any technical proposal that ignores prior technologies is itself doomed to be ignored by the next technical proposal. In addition to the slide presentations (links to come) in the mini workshop and Zoom verbal discussion which was minuted (link to come), there was a lot of very interesting discussion in the Zoom chat, which was not minuted. Sometimes such quick back & forth can help inspire summarizing of points which one had not previously written down. I was encouraged by a fellow workshop participant to blog this one so here it is! #W3C #credweb #credibleWeb #authenticWeb #technology #technical #proposal #technicalProposal #history
: 20 years and two weeks ago, I came up with undohtml.css and unknowingly invented the mechanism of CSS Resets (AKA reboot or reset style sheets¹) which spawned numerous variants, many still in broad use on the web today.https://tantek.com/log/2004/09.html#d06t2354A one sentence problem description, and a short paragraph describing my problem-solving, actions, license, link to less than 300 bytes of code (not counting comments), and a few future thoughts.The rest of that blog post was about “debug scaffolding”, the part I thought was more interesting at the time.Eric Meyer (@meyerweb.com @meyerweb@mastodon.social) followed up ~10 days afterwards with his thinking and improvements:* https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/15/emreallyem-undoing-htmlcss/where he mentioned “resetting” in passing, but not actually calling it a "reset".~2.5 years later Eric published “Reset Styles” with further reasoning and improvements:* http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/04/12/reset-styles/describing them as: “reset” or “baseline” set of styles.Subsequently he iterated in several more blog posts:* http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/04/14/reworked-reset/* http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/04/18/reset-reasoning/ — this is Eric’s first post where he explicitly calls them “reset styles”, which I believe is the origin of the eventual phrase “CSS Reset” and “reset style sheets”* http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/05/01/reset-reloaded/ (yes a Matrix: Reloaded reference)~6 months later Eric published his evergreen resource “CSS Tools: Reset CSS”* https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/which, as you see within the URL: “css/reset”, is perhaps where the phrase “CSS Reset” comes from, and it’s also the label (link text) he gives that page in his UI about-page² and the first content link in his 404 page³.My technology invention takeaways from all this:1. if you find yourself repeatedly solving the same (especially annoying) problem, create a re-usable solution that works for you2. write up your problem statement / use-case in only one sentence3. publish your solution (on your personal site⁴), name it something short, with only a short paragraph description, and re-use/remix friendly license (like Creative Commons)And things not to worry about (that may get in your way to publishing):1. perfecting or making your solution “big enough” or “the right size”. does it solve your problem? then it’s already the right size.2. coming up with the perfect name. instead, name it what it does. someone might come up with a better name weeks, months, or years later. let them run with it!3. waiting to blog multiple things. I could have blogged undohtml.css by itself, probably should have, and instead lumped it into a blog post with another CSS thing I came up with.Further reading and resources for CSS Resets:* More history: https://css-tricks.com/reboot-resets-reasoning/* Large collection: https://perishablepress.com/a-killer-collection-of-global-css-reset-styles/References:¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reset_style_sheet² https://meyerweb.com/ui/about.html³ https://meyerweb.com/404⁴ https://indieweb.org/#undoHTML #undoHTMLCSS #reset #CSSreset #resetstyles #webdesign #technology #invention #indieweb
's status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 20:35:00 EDT
20 years and two weeks ago, I came up with undohtml.css and unknowingly invented the mechanism of CSS Resets (AKA reboot or reset style sheets¹) which spawned numerous variants, many still in broad use on the web today. https://tantek.com/log/2004/09.html#d06t2354 A one sentence problem description, and a short paragraph describing my problem-solving, actions, license, link to less than 300 bytes of code (not counting comments), and a few future thoughts. The rest of that blog post was about “debug scaffolding”, the part I thought was more interesting at the time. Eric Meyer (@meyerweb.com @meyerweb@mastodon.social) followed up ~10 days afterwards with his thinking and improvements: * https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/15/emreallyem-undoing-htmlcss/ where he mentioned “resetting” in passing, but not actually calling it a "reset". ~2.5 years later Eric published “Reset Styles” with further reasoning and improvements: * http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/04/12/reset-styles/ describing them as: “reset” or “baseline” set of styles. Subsequently he iterated in several more blog posts: * http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/04/14/reworked-reset/ * http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/04/18/reset-reasoning/ — this is Eric’s first post where he explicitly calls them “reset styles”, which I believe is the origin of the eventual phrase “CSS Reset” and “reset style sheets” * http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/05/01/reset-reloaded/ (yes a Matrix: Reloaded reference) ~6 months later Eric published his evergreen resource “CSS Tools: Reset CSS” * https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ which, as you see within the URL: “css/reset”, is perhaps where the phrase “CSS Reset” comes from, and it’s also the label (link text) he gives that page in his UI about-page² and the first content link in his 404 page³. My technology invention takeaways from all this: 1. if you find yourself repeatedly solving the same (especially annoying) problem, create a re-usable solution that works for you 2. write up your problem statement / use-case in only one sentence 3. publish your solution (on your personal site⁴), name it something short, with only a short paragraph description, and re-use/remix friendly license (like Creative Commons) And things not to worry about (that may get in your way to publishing): 1. perfecting or making your solution “big enough” or “the right size”. does it solve your problem? then it’s already the right size. 2. coming up with the perfect name. instead, name it what it does. someone might come up with a better name weeks, months, or years later. let them run with it! 3. waiting to blog multiple things. I could have blogged undohtml.css by itself, probably should have, and instead lumped it into a blog post with another CSS thing I came up with. Further reading and resources for CSS Resets: * More history: https://css-tricks.com/reboot-resets-reasoning/ * Large collection: https://perishablepress.com/a-killer-collection-of-global-css-reset-styles/ References: ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reset_style_sheet ² https://meyerweb.com/ui/about.html ³ https://meyerweb.com/404 ⁴ https://indieweb.org/ #undoHTML #undoHTMLCSS #reset #CSSreset #resetstyles #webdesign #technology #invention #indieweb
coldacid: Another day, another kowtow to Beijing by Justin Trudeau. #ONet !canada !cdnpoli #nationalsecurity #technology https://sealion.club/url/530533
coldacid's status on Monday, 09-Jan-2017 20:57:26 EST
Another day, another kowtow to Beijing by Justin Trudeau. #ONet !canada !cdnpoli #nationalsecurity #technology <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/liberals-reverse-harper-cabinet-order-to-unwind-chinese-takeover-deal/article33560076/?cmpid=rss1&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter" title="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/liberals-reverse-harper-cabinet-order-to-unwind-chinese-takeover-deal/article33560076/?cmpid=rss1&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter" class="attachment" rel="nofollow">https://sealion.club/url/530533
mmn: RT @rysiek #Fairphone and #Jolla announce deeper collaboration. With Fairphone, Jolla shares a very active #community that values #transparency both in #hardware production and #software. Since autumn 2015 Jolla #developer community has been working to port #Sailfish OS to the Fairphone 2, the ethical #smartphone that uses #modular #design to increase the phone’s #longevity and #repairability. Following the progress of the community #porting, Jolla and Fairphone are now evaluating possibilities to enter into commercial collaboration based on common #values. Olivier Hebert, Chief #Technology Officer at Fairphone comments: “Making the Fairphone 2 hardware an open development platform has been one of our major ambitions from the start. This way, we can foster innovation into new mobile software technology and applications, while giving users the choice in the operating systems that they want to use. Sailfish OS is something that a large proportion of our community has been very i ...
mmn's status on Saturday, 30-Apr-2016 17:16:44 EDT
RT @rysiek #Fairphone and #Jolla announce deeper collaboration. With Fairphone, Jolla shares a very active #community that values #transparency both in #hardware production and #software. Since autumn 2015 Jolla #developer community has been working to port #Sailfish OS to the Fairphone 2, the ethical #smartphone that uses #modular #design to increase the phone’s #longevity and #repairability. Following the progress of the community #porting, Jolla and Fairphone are now evaluating possibilities to enter into commercial collaboration based on common #values. Olivier Hebert, Chief #Technology Officer at Fairphone comments: “Making the Fairphone 2 hardware an open development platform has been one of our major ambitions from the start. This way, we can foster innovation into new mobile software technology and applications, while giving users the choice in the operating systems that they want to use. Sailfish OS is something that a large proportion of our community has been very i ...
rysiek: #Fairphone and #Jolla announce deeper collaboration. With Fairphone, Jolla shares a very active #community that values #transparency both in #hardware production and #software. Since autumn 2015 Jolla #developer community has been working to po https://joindiaspora.com/p/7066208
rysiek's status on Wednesday, 24-Feb-2016 06:09:20 EST
#Fairphone and #Jolla announce deeper collaboration. With Fairphone, Jolla shares a very active #community that values #transparency both in #hardware production and #software. Since autumn 2015 Jolla #developer community has been working to po…
mmn: RT @fraktalize tEChnOLOGICAL communion I am participating in the element14 Open Source Music Tech challenge! I'm making a suit that is designed to receive inputs from the wearers movements, to allow for music to be created with full body movement. This will later be joined with an array of generative music using electrodes on plants, to manifest a communication between humans and the plants using electronic music as the medium. You can follow my project blog here! You can watch my latest project video here! #music #hacking #musictech #innovation #creativity #art #digitalart #technology #nature #love #spirituality
mmn's status on Thursday, 11-Feb-2016 21:09:21 EST
RT @fraktalize tEChnOLOGICAL communion I am participating in the element14 Open Source Music Tech challenge! I'm making a suit that is designed to receive inputs from the wearers movements, to allow for music to be created with full body movement. This will later be joined with an array of generative music using electrodes on plants, to manifest a communication between humans and the plants using electronic music as the medium. You can follow my project blog here! You can watch my latest project video here! #music #hacking #musictech #innovation #creativity #art #digitalart #technology #nature #love #spirituality
fraktalize: tEChnOLOGICAL communion I am participating in the element14 Open Source Music Tech challenge! I'm making a suit that is designed to receive inputs from the wearers movements, to allow for music to be created with full body movement. This will later be https://diasp.eu/p/3977349
fraktalize's status on Thursday, 11-Feb-2016 20:48:00 EST
tEChnOLOGICAL communion I am participating in the element14 Open Source Music Tech challenge! I'm making a suit that is designed to receive inputs from the wearers movements, to allow for music to be created with full body movement. This will later be…
laurelrusswurm: RT @anonymiss GE Crops and Unsustainable Agricultural Practices are Destroying our Planet’s Soil and http://s.russwurm.org/notice/176691
laurelrusswurm's status on Monday, 27-Jan-2014 12:06:26 EST
RT @anonymiss GE Crops and Unsustainable Agricultural Practices are Destroying our Planet’s Soil and …
anonymiss: GE Crops and Unsustainable Agricultural Practices are Destroying our Planet’s Soil and Food Supply http://status.pirati.ca/notice/408158
anonymiss's status on Monday, 27-Jan-2014 10:46:19 EST
GE Crops and Unsustainable Agricultural Practices are Destroying our Planet’s Soil and Food Supply …