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Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
... and pulled from its post. "We're not going to renovate it, we're going to restore it," said Paul Ellis, Wilson's nephew and the building's owner. Wilson, who died in 2005, wrote a cycle of 10 plays, detailing the black experience through the 20th century. Nine of his plays were set in the Hill District and two won the Pulitizer Prize. The building in February received a designation...
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Adobe Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Does W3C-blaming risk bringing about what it deplores? There were big debates last week about "blaming the W3C for a proprietary web" ( Slashdot , Paul Ellis , Molly Holzschlag , Alex Russell , Shelley Powers , OSNews , John Carroll , Steven Clark , more ). There was a subthread of "Don't blame the W3C; blame the browser vendors instead", but that still assumes that there is blame for...
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The Universal Desktop (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Via John Carroll I saw a blog post by Paul Ellis in which he talks about the shortcomings of open standards, or more specifically, standards bodies, and how that affects the open web. In short, it’s led to the innovation and widespread adoption of proprietary technologies like Flash and Silverlight. If you really step back [...]
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Code Monkey Ramblings (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Paul Ellis makes a strong case that the W3C and WHATWG are to blame for the increased use of proprietary technologies on the web. I don't think the problem is all of that serious yet because there are alternatives to...
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Hacking for Christ (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Asa and Paul Ellis have been having an exchange; Paul started by asking why it is we don't bother users at first run with a "Before you go any further, you must choose a search engine from this list of every possible engine we can find, none of whom have ever given us any money" dialog, arguing that therefore we aren't "open to choice". Asa replied, pointing out the difference...
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molly.com (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Paul Ellis eloquently points out a few things I’ve become hoarse saying over the past year in his recent post A proprietary Web? Blame the W3C. My personal list goes like this: There’s no such thing as “Web Standards” There’s no such thing as an open Web (except in our dreams) There’s no such thing as interoperability on the [...]
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CentOS, Linux and Operating Systems (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Paul Ellis writes “Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler has said ‘It’s really hard for me to believe that either [Microsoft or Adobe] have the free and open Web at heart when they’re actively subverting it with closed technologies like Flash and Silverlight.’ But are they really subverting it? Where is the line between serving the consumer and [...]
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TechBlogger (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Paul Ellis writes “Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler has said ‘It’s really hard for me to believe that either [Microsoft or Adobe] have the free and open Web at heart when they’re actively subverting it with closed technologies like Flash and Silverlight.’ But are they really subverting it? Where is the line between serving the consumer and [...]
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arnsteinblogg 2.0 (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Paul Ellis writes "Mozilla's Asa Dotzler has said 'It's really hard for me to believe that either [Microsoft or Adobe] have the free and open Web at heart when they're actively subverting it with closed technologies like Flash and Silverlight.' But are they really subverting it? Where is the line between serving the consumer and subverting the Web? This blog post makes the case that the...
