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It’s the classic metacrap problem: invisible metadata rots.

https://people.well.com/user/doctorow/metacrap.htm

It’s one of the reasons why microformats always favoured marking up existing, visible (user-facing) data.

This is an interesting development though:

https://blog.chromium.org/2020/07/using-chrome-to-generate-more.html

HTML -> accessible PDF as an archival workflow?

No rush! You can take as long as you like.

(As you know, I am no stranger to playing the long game. 🙂)

Whoops! Thanks for spotting that—should be fixed now.

Nice! (and thank you!)

When I was a kid, I thought the word “character” started with a “chuh” sound (’cause, y’know that is how it’s spelled).

I also pronounced the “b” in the “subtle” …which wasn’t.

Reading a lot just leads to embarrassment.

Smooth!

(like butter)

Yes.

I refuse on principle to use an ISP that does any traffic shaping.

Seeing as Safari shows all the computed properties correctly, I’m guessing it was something that was introduced after the Webkit/Blink fork?

But weirdly, Firefox is showing the same behaviour as Chrome.

But all off the border- properties are specified in long hand. Neither Firefox nor Chrome shows their computed values in dev tools.

I think that was dConstruct 2015.

Eid Mubarak, Sara!

There’s also the ongoing pitch drop experiments:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitchdropexperiment

• 100 years: https://www.futurelibrary.no/
• 693 years: https://universes.art/en/specials/john-cage-organ-project-halberstadt/
• 1000 years: https://www.amherst.edu/museums/mead/exhibitions/2015/-jonathon-keats-photographing-deep-time-

I just stumbled across this recording from a band I sometimes played with in Germany in the 90s doing a cover of Eisbär (I’m on bouzouki):

https://soundcloud.com/user-52736705/lunar-ride-eisbar-grauzone-cover-live-zmf-1999

I concur that impact is more important than motive.

That’s why I was surprised that you ascribed motive in your blog post (a motive that contradicts Apple’s stated motive).

I’m trying to make of it what you will, but you won’t tell me. 🙂

They claim one motive (privacy). You claim another (not wishing to expand the web platform).

Which one is true and which one is false?

Nowhere in published policy documents do Apple or Mozilla say that they do not wish to expand the web platform.

You wrote a blog post stating that Apple and Mozilla do not wish to expand the web platform.

So you’re not accusing them of lying?

You claim that they do not wish to expand the web platform.

What they have written published in policy documents is that they have privacy concerns.

Is what they are saying true?

You should be a politician.

It’s a “yes” or “no” question.

Are they lying?