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HTML5 is done, but two groups still wrestle over Web’s future – CNET

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 28, 2014 Posted in Misc No Comments

#HTML5  goes to "Rec." Definitely worth celebrating. But also, Web Standards are messy. This CNET article by +Stephen Shankland really does a good job of peeling that back. Bonus points for featuring a #w3cmeme . #blogthis  ? The World Wide Web …

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“Anonabox”: One-Stop-Shop for Internet Privacy?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 14, 2014 Posted in Technology, Web No Comments Tagged with privacy, private browsing, tor

According to The Verge, the “Anonabox” Kickstarter is Trying to be a One-Stop-Shop for Internet Privacy. So the hacker in me loves the idea of this, but actually I think it’s probably over-kill (and an over-promise) for most people’s web …

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Yosemite Hand-off and tel: URIs

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 4, 2014 Posted in Technology No Comments Tagged with ios8, Safari, yosemite

Just playing around with the new “hand off” (I guess this falls under) feature in IOS8 / Yosemite. If you have a phone number in a web page suitably marked up as <a href=”tel:…”>link</a> and visit that page with Safari, …

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I'm an immigrant and US/UK dual national who has been living in London since 1999. I'm an advocate for emerging web technologies, the open web, open source and open data. I am co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group. I was a founder and co-organizer of the Over the Air hack day series and of Mobile Monday London. I'm a former .com CTO. I'm currently working at Snyk, leading open source and open standards work.

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