Mike Smith has extracted all the parts of the HTML5 spec related to authoring (as opposed to error handling, DOM and other user-agent instructions) to create a pure markup spec. Very handy.
I absolutely love this in-depth history of the web, written in a snappy, snarky tone.
In the beginning, there was no CSS.
This was very bad.
Even if you—like me—lived through all this stuff, I guarantee there’ll still be something in here you didn’t know.
Written in 2001, this history of the web takes in CERN, hypertext, the ARPANET, SGML, and lots more.
I just noticed that I’m mentioned in the acknowledgements of this most handy of W3C documents. This pleases me disproportionately.
Paul Ford’s potted history of web standards, delivered in his own inimitable style.
Reading through the standards, which are dry as can be, you might imagine that standardization is a polite, almost academic process, where wonks calmly debate topics like semicolon placement. This is not the case.
Bruce sits down for a chat with Hixie. This is a good insight into the past and present process behind HTML.
Hammering out the issues around standardising responsive images.
Quit yer bitchin’
All I want for Christmas is a lint tool.
The HTML5 spec has been updated again.
My petitions to the makers of markup.