Patents, Royalties, and Web Standards
This week there is only one web story that matters. The W3C has written a patent policy that opens the door to royalty payments on web standards.
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You Can’t Do Everything
In any given day I can find myself reading up on a new W3C proposal, fixing an issue with our tax return, coding an add-on for our product, writing a conference presentation, building a server, creating a video tutorial, and doing front end development for one of our sites. Without clients dictating my workload I’m in the enviable position of being able to choose where to focus my efforts. However, I can’t physically do everything.
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“We’re at the cusp of understanding the ultimate value of web publishing platforms, particularly ones that work cross-domain.”–Matt Mullenweg of WordPress.
MapBox Develops an Open Source Vector Format for Maps
MapBox's new vector-based map tiles are more stable, more scalable, and customizable to an amazing degree.
