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2015

April

Controlling Spatial Navigation

While working on the CSS directional navigation properties, the question of how to activate spacial navigation has come up a few times, s...

Improving Usability with the user-select Property

CSS Basic UI Level 4 specifies the user-select CSS property. I’d like to introduce user-select: all, a small but easy win for usability.

Lettre ouverte à Axelle Lemaire sur le projet de loi Renseignement

Ce qu'Edward Snowden a révélé aurait dut être un avertissement, pas une source d'inspiration. Il n'est jamais trop tard pour bien faire, ...

2016

December

Specifying Legacy Features

I ran into an old article from Hixie that describes how he worked when specifying the drag and drop part of HTML. As I am working on spec...

Content Editable is a Scary Place

If you want to use contenteditable now, don't do it directly and instead use a pre-made javascript editor. If these don’t do what you wan...

2017

May

Modernizing the Disposition of Comments

The W3C “Disposition of Comments” is a useful document to prepare, but we should update the way we prepare them to match the way modern s...

Moralisation de la vie publique

Des évènements de campagne électorale ont été organisés par des sociétés privées, en apparente contradiction avec le code électoral.

2018

April

Running for the AB

I am a candidate in the upcoming election of the W3C Advisory Board.

AB選挙に立候補

This is the Japanese translation of my previous post about running for the W3C AB.

顾问委员会理事会的选举

This is the Chinese translation of my previous post about running for the W3C AB. I would like to thank Bobby Tung (Co-chair of the Ch...

May

Ab 출마

This is the Korean translation of my previous post about running for the W3C AB. I would like to thank Jihye Hong (from LG Electronics...

Candidat à l’AB

This is the French translation of my previous post about running for the W3C AB.

2019

W3C Advisory Board Election

My take on this year's W3C AB election, including my top picks out of 12 outstanding candidates.

REC Track Transitions Are Too Heavy

One of the things that takes a lot of time on the W3C REC track, and make people wish for some more agile way such as evergreen or living...