W3C TPAC 2014 – notes and souvenirs

Leonie Watson and I attended the W3C Technical Plenary (TPAC) last week. It was a big one; including W3C’s 20th anniversary and HTML5 became a W3C Recommendation. I have collated some links and tweets capturing some of my memories of last week at W3C TPAC 2014.

HTML5 is now a W3C Recommendation.
؟Work on HTML at the W3C is over ؟

• HTML5 is a W3C Recommendation
• Ride to 5
• HTML 5.1
• HTML Modularisation
• After HTML 5 / future work
• after 5
• <html5-sarcasm>custom element on github

#HTML5 is a W3C Recommendation http://t.co/El1jgeO5Ue

— W3C (@w3c) October 28, 2014

@LeonieWatson, @robinberjon and I, with @timberners_lee #fb pic.twitter.com/69kAVkZYWM

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 28, 2014

Picked up this miniature HTML5 @W3C branded Prince Albert for @patrick_h_lauke #tpac pic.twitter.com/TfhvBxv32F

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 31, 2014

@sgalineau @robinberjon @stevefaulkner damn, I should’ve carved a “longdesc REC” jack o’ lantern.

— Edward O’Connor (@hober) October 31, 2014

In the fight between the ‘open web platform’ & ‘personal hygiene’ @w3c, the former always wins. #tpac detritus all righticus

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 31, 2014

Photo: Deep thoughts from TV Raman. http://t.co/OMeiFN3xD5

— W3C Memes (@w3cmemes) October 30, 2014

alt=Philosoraptor ponders “WHO WRITES RULES FOR RULE-BREAKERS?” @w3cmemes

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 30, 2014

paulc: if we said “blow our minds” SteveF or even just ‘blow us’ http://t.co/LDOSVa2HqF HTML WG #tpac

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 30, 2014

In HTML WG meet with the architect #tpac pic.twitter.com/E6vOFyofx2

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 30, 2014

You know who has been tremendously cool at #tpac this year? Microsoft. Seriously, they deserve props for recent efforts/work/willingness

— вкαя∂εℓℓ (@briankardell) October 31, 2014

age related perception “[Bug 27188] popstate” keep reading as “prostate” #tpac

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 31, 2014

In all seriousness, congrats to @timberners_lee, everyone at @w3c, & all others who have helped make the Web something great to poke fun of.

— W3C Memes (@w3cmemes) October 30, 2014

Day 1 start – @W3C HTML Working Group #tpac pic.twitter.com/AgTFrW4Ube

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 30, 2014

The Titans of Modesty. They never put a ©®™ on any of it. @vgcerf & @timberners_lee pic.twitter.com/VlPw4IKY8C

— John Perry Barlow (@JPBarlow) October 30, 2014

woke up to the echoing of a @chaals meaty guffaw a #tpac memory?

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 30, 2014

I was just exhausted From the act of being polite #tpac http://t.co/TAdqudjY78

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 30, 2014

“marcosc: said: 1) ok that specs fail, 2) HTML spec is heavily interwoven, 3) appears to be [job] security for Hixie” http://t.co/3otWm2XLN6

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 29, 2014

Standing ovation for @timberners_lee at #w3c20: “The @W3C is a consensus organization; we need to make the world a consensus organization.”

— Jeremy Geelan (@jg21) October 30, 2014

HTML5 to REC @W3C a MILESTONE not a TOMBSTONE #tpac http://t.co/U97MgRptaj

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 30, 2014

Streaming video on the Web: a good example of more work to do http://t.co/qN2zOjlpSY by @plhw3org #HTML5

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 29, 2014

Photo: Introducing the element http://t.co/vDqUXl5Fn5

— W3C Memes (@w3cmemes) October 31, 2014

alt= robin berjon [@robinberjon] posing seductively in a suit jacket sans shirt. “IN A POST-HTML5 WORLD” @w3cmemes #tpac

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 31, 2014

watching http://t.co/t3Rct6rNeh #w3c20 can’t escape flash crash… pic.twitter.com/uAoValIg0g

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 29, 2014

WE WILL LOWER CASE ALL THINGS IN SVG SAYS @shepazu #tpac

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 30, 2014

browsers hinder progress and do absolutely nothing to improve our lives

— Horse JS (@horse_js) October 31, 2014

Molly on HTML5 to REC @W3C http://t.co/Fjpw8sDhGg @mollydotcom it’s never too late for you!

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 30, 2014

For those of you who are into it: a fresh [draft] take on ARIA accessible name computation http://t.co/LsE50sQu2C by @xlown

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 31, 2014

HTML5 pasa a ser una recomendación de la W3C http://t.co/MQW7hqbizo

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 31, 2014

YUP! “the W3C is continuing from joint work that began when Hickson was editing HTML for both @WHATWG & @W3C” – @jeff_jaffe

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 30, 2014

Neat use of [polyfilled] <details>/<summary> for examples and notes http://t.co/LsE50sQu2C more usable specs! @W3C @xlown

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 31, 2014

W3C verabschiedet HTML5-Standard – iX http://t.co/Nu5Iwp4FSl #HTML5

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 31, 2014

Photo: Steve F doesn’t want to read your boilerplate shit. http://t.co/l0ledAbtQv

— W3C Memes (@w3cmemes) October 30, 2014

On HTML5 vs Living Standard, W3C vs WHATWG by @brucel – comment http://t.co/EvF0HRISDu /cc @stshank

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 29, 2014

Love the HTML5 Rec reactions here. “Great!” “Important work!” “THIS IS DUMB AND WRONG WHATWG RULES W3C DROOLS” http://t.co/5XWnhgVPGs

— Matt May (@mattmay) October 28, 2014

@mattur @robinberjon It will be Dead at W3C, but a Living Dead at WHATWG. Obviously.

— Sylvain Galineau (@sgalineau) October 28, 2014

work continues on HTML @W3C – yesterday I put together draft conformance requirements for use of ARIA in SVG in HTML5 http://t.co/nhe0jfxL1q

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 29, 2014

“inclusion of ARIA puts critical semantic info right where dev’s need it – at the heart of [HTML5]” – @LeonieWatson http://t.co/U97MgRptaj

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 29, 2014

#HTML5 is a W3C Recommendation http://t.co/El1jgeO5Ue

— W3C (@w3c) October 28, 2014

HTML5 is a REC. Must be time for XHTML3.

— Sylvain Galineau (@sgalineau) October 28, 2014

“I showed up at the W3C in 2007 to do 3 things: chew bubblegum, help get a new HTML spec to Rec & kick ass.” http://t.co/U97MgRptaj #HTML5

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 29, 2014

MC5 – I Want You Right Now http://t.co/8qJU5oUXwP (play it LOUD!) #fb

— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) October 26, 2014