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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Links

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

Titles

• 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