It is the true teacher who leaves the class knowing they have learned the most.
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Generally Charming a little invasion was finally he says well what is this obscure thing you need implemented which was not obscure at all it was the CSS specification which he promised then and there to ensure would move forward and made a public commitment to make it happen.
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It took me a little time to get those first words out but he masterfully took a few beads after my question and made a rather dark joke about well I don't know it would be like to own the web it sounds attractive and the entire room just lost it laughing we sparred for a while
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Bill Gates and I were sitting two and a half feet across a conference table eye-to-eye. Well I was never nervous about that I realized the weight of the significance of what was happening and that was the first time and maybe only time in my life where I got nervous.
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It was really down to so many different people it would take years to name them all but they did an amazing job at bringing together just the right folks although of course you can only imagine that when it got to me I really didn't have much to say did I hahaha
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Had a chance at the end of the session to sit down with Bill Gates himself and speak individually with him a bit about our unique concerns or feedback regarding issues with Microsoft and developers in the wild I cannot say how unusual this was for a company like that open up
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Suddenly I find myself at a mixing Mash with colleagues Tonto cilic and Williams my Carrington was still at TechCrunch the ever wonderful Kelly Goto along with many other folks visited Microsoft for insight into their upcoming Mix n Mash conference. Ie7 was coming! We
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Well they decided to move forward with ie7 and Implement as much CSS improve JavaScript and prove the document object model and the only thing really missing at that point was offering consistent mime types to serve XML as an application which has benefits and challenges still.
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Many people were writing books doing talks Outreach education these were developers and designers not necessarily people working on specifications at the w3c as was their Charter or Microsoft except for the web platform fellows often at the w3c like Marcus mielke and Chris Wilson
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We spoke at a conference before the big Nick's conferences I believe where we gave perspectives on things that could be done together to get better Harmony and improve life for everyone bye bringing especially now CSS features forward. Advocacy across the world opened windows;-)
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One of those task forces was myself, the Visionary JavaScript developer Dean Edwards who had actually used Microsoft Technology and JavaScript to implement settings with one script call which he humorously referred to as i e 7. Microsoft invited myself @meyerweb others to come
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Robert scoble and other people from the Microsoft environment began to listen and open up and thus began a shift along with the wonderful Chris Wilson who had been hanging in there through all of this through the web standards project 2 over 40 members with different task forces.
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The web standards project shifted perspective as Jeffrey wanted to go back to design and other projects so myself and Steve Champeon stepped into the coal lead of the web standards project he worked on the technology and kept us moving forward well I went on a lot of ranting LOL
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A better open source rendering engine that eventually did become adopted by the major browsers we use now that's solved a lot of problems. The w3c began to modularize CSS which was a wonderful move because it meant implementations to be done in Cycles longer than years at a time.
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It's important to remember we did not have the near browser monoculture we have today back then. Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, Safari where at different implementations and doing different things in their rendering. Safari and open source projects especially allowed for
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To Microsoft's credit that a browser they made and stopped innovating on 5 years in Internet years which is what a blink of an eye had implemented some very cool things otherwise. But issues like Box model, Dom, emerging CSS options caused us nightmares.
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At that point Internet Explorer 6 owned the dominant space of the web. But Netscape still was important because it was being used all over especially in government and education and we had to write for both so now came the hacks and the workarounds as well as browser advocacy.
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A new time was emerging. We had strong markup and better ideas about content pause. CSS was starting to mature so we had more options there and we were getting more skilled with how we used JavaScript but kept the content open for accessibility. But there was one big problem.
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As we were doing this work at the w3c was moving more into the XML space. The existential markup language is another Meadow language from which applications and subsets are made came out of us Gmail but with far more rigor still Proverbs but better markup this became xhtml. So
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