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Mozilla To Document Cross-Browser Web Dev Standards with Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and W3C (venturebeat.com)
Mozilla has announced deeper partnerships with Microsoft, Google, Samsung, and web standards body W3C to create cross-browser documentation on MDN Web Docs, a web development documentation portal created by Mozilla. From a report: MDN Web Docs first came to fruition in 2005, and it has since been known under various names, including the Mozilla Developer Network and Mozilla Developer Center. Today, MDN Web Docs serves as a community and library of sorts covering all things related to web technologies and standards, including JavaScript, HTML, CSS, open web app development, Firefox add-on development, and more. The web constitutes multiple players from across the technology spectrum and, of course, multiple browsers, including Microsoft's Edge, Google's Chrome, Mozilla's Firefox, and the Samsung Internet Browser. To avoid fragmentation and ensure end-users have a (fairly) consistent browsing experience, it helps if all the players involved adhere to a similar set of standards.
The MDN docs are some of the best around. It's surely one of Mozilla's most successful projects, and this will only make them more useful.
That's great! Good docs and funding terrorism. Hurray for Mozilla.
C'mon Apple. We know you want everybody to just download an app, but still.
Mozilla and a similar group of other actors announced something very similar 5 years ago where they would collaborate on creating content for the then new webplatform.org site. But Mozilla kept doing its own thing on their slow, verbose MDN site and there by undermining the project. The web would be better of without MDN cluttering up search results.
We need a non-commercial entity like Mozilla just for this.
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With most competing browsers and the content industry embracing the W3C EME specification, Mozilla has little choice but to implement EME as well
FUCK Mozilla
DIY with the Anarchist Cookbook!
No he needs to apply for disability on the grounds that he's a retard who can't work.(IANAL)
They'll decline this because he has a job.
Then he should continue working until his contract ends and he's laid off.
Then he can spend the next 2 years on unemployment as long as he keeps bombing interviews
After that he can lawyer up and present his large periods of unemployment and general lack of success, autistic behavior, and statements from co-workers as proof that he was only extremely lucky to have a pity job as a sped diversity hire. (IANAL)
Once his disability status is granted he'll be given back-disability for the entire 7 year period when he was collecting a paycheck of unemployment.
That's 364 weeks in 7 years and at a like 1150 a week for disability that works out to a little under a half million dollars.
Then he can become another fat retired IT sexpat somewhere.(ANAL)
$1150/week for disability? Like, $60K/year? That has to be a mistake. Disabled people are out on street corners begging, like creimer will be in ten-fifteen years once he's an old IT worker and basically unhirable, with no savings.
That's figuring he will qualify for maximum benefits which he probably get given how much he has paid into SSDI and his current income. IANAL.
Most disabled people don't qualify for that much and if they're in a group home setting they intentionally leave them only a small amount of money. So begging means good food, a show, smokes, a crack rock or really anything above the basic necessities.
What would you do right now to right yourself if you were Chris?
Christopher, my love,
I am deeply sorry. I didn't feel well lately but I am better now. I am sorry that I called you all sorts of names on /. and I feel truly ashamed of myself.
The python click script you wrote for me my sweet love for my pheromone revenue stream web site suddenly stopped to work.
Could you come visit me in my studio so we could look at it?
Update: I could go get you at work around noon and we could go have lunch at the Cafe Latte near by where we went last week and tonight we could have a look at that python click script you wrote for me my sweet love for my pheromone revenue stream web site.
Signed:
Your sweetee who will love you for ever.
I don't know that much about SSDI benefits, but my understanding is that Creimer currently doesn't have a high-end job, and in fact has had a number of years of under-employment. So, he wouldn't qualify for maximum benefits.
If I was Creimer...probably just try to find a better-paying IT job in an area with a lower cost of living, and save up as much money as possible. Obviously the clock is ticking before he is aged out of the workforce during the next IT downswing and he has to get some job at Home Depot or something. It wouldn't be quite enough to cover medical + housing, but he could cover from savings. I don't think a person at his weight could handle a lot of jobs at age 60, so he might be kind of fucked.
SSI will cover him for like $15K / year once he get to be 65, soon the money will run out and he'll have to live off Medicaid for the rest of his life, but given his weight he probably won't live much past that anyway.
Gaming the disability system in the way you mention seems like something that could so easily go wrong. I would definitely want to talk to a lawyer about it.
I tried reading W3C "documentation" a few times. It's so dry and devoid of real-life example as to be useless. It may be the way engineers write documents but it's not the kind of references I'm used to read as a programmer.
#DeleteFacebook
I made a mistake... that's workers disability :( 1700 a month is ssdi
Still he'd make 172000 at the end of 7 years and 1700 a month after that. I believe he could start drawing from any 401k he might have. So it's enough to buy a bigass house in the middle of BFE and make 20k a year. If he needs to he can sell the house later but for many purposes that money will be considered off the books plus he can probably get away with renting a room. Given that he lives in the palo alto area on 55k a year this might be an improvement for him.
We just need everyone to keep to a standard, if they did this would not be necessary. Put your efforts into standardizing instead of documenting differences and we would all be better off.
IMHO there only should be one web browser, a 100% open source and transparent browser, not owned or managed by any single organization or group. And no organization or group would be allowed to offer a variant. One browser to rule them all. This browser would not trust by default any security certificates either. Everybody is distrusted by default. Trust is something that is earnt not automatically accepted. I would also have a browser that would protect user data by default. In fact if any third party wants to show advertisment they must pay the end user for the privledge. All the technology exists to build such a browser. If a free and open browser existed that paid you as you used it, everyone would use it, if everyone was using it we the corporates would have to follow us, instead of us following them. Then we can tell all these corporate entities to fuck off with their leeching business models.
Bring the web back to the people.
My 2c.
How do you recommend going about crowdfunding several hundred billion U.S. dollars to acquire a controlling interest in the incumbent movie studios in order to force them to end their policy of price discrimination against rewatchers?