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    retro-specs

    August 11, 2011 Further Reading, LGRU, Networked graphics, practice, Reading, specifications, standards

    MM reads the introduction to Mark Pilgrims’ Dive into HTML5: “HTML has always been a conversation between browser makers, authors, standards wonks, and other people who just showed up and liked to talk about angle brackets. Most of the successful versions of HTML have been “retro-specs,” catching up to the world while simultaneously trying to […]

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