how towin friends

and influencestandards bodies

“Fuck these guys”

2004

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“The W3C had so far failed to addressa need in the web community: there is

no language for web applications.”

W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound

Documents

implementers+

interested community members=

standards bodies

standards; how do they work?

solutions are hard

living standards

getting involved

lurk first

solution time is later

understand the constraints

build small coalitions

pick your battles

concede defeat; don’t retread

leave your sense of logic at the door

(objects in rear-view mirror are more complicated than they appear)

prolyfill

be present

success stories

promises

web audio feedback via the TAG

adding the error to window.onerror

new es6 built-in methods

es6 module improvements

what’s next

streams

packaged apps

es7

#extendthewebforward