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Aaron Gustafson’s NotebookOct 9, 2026

WebMCP Should Prioritize People over Agents

Apple’s WebKit team opposed a separate semantic layer for AI agents, echoing concerns I’d raised when I first learned about WebMCP.

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Decentralizing FedCMOct 2, 2026

Update #1: Getting started and keeping momentum

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Devtools FMJan 16, 2026

Mike Samuel - Google Calendar, Temper Language, Web Standards

Mike Samuel, Google Calendar creator, unveils Temper language designed to solve disconnected programming ecosystems by translating seamlessly across multiple targets.

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Aaron Gustafson’s NotebookOct 9, 2023

I finally had a chance to put the work I did on a widgets proposal for PWAs into practice on my own site. It’s pretty exciting!

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Aaron Gustafson’s NotebookOct 26, 2021

Enhancing the Manifest

I briefly presented on a bunch of the different efforts I’m involved with at the W3C’s TPAC yesterday. Here’s a rundown of what I discussed as well as links you can follow if you want to get involved.

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Aaron Gustafson’s NotebookMay 6, 2019

I’m Running for the W3C Advisory Board

When a handful of my colleagues reached out to see if I’d consider running for the W3C Advisory Board, I was… well… speechless.

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Aaron Gustafson’s NotebookMar 31, 2017

Pondering fallback content

I’ve been thinking a lot about media formats and what happens when a user’s browser encounters a `video`, `audio`, or `picture` element that only includes formats it doesn’t support.

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Aaron Gustafson’s NotebookFeb 26, 2015

Apple, Business, and Standards

With Pointer Events now officially a W3C Recommendation, Apple is playing the role of the Web standards and interoperability party pooper.

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Aaron Gustafson’s NotebookJan 21, 2015

Competing on “Chrome”

Watching the Windows 10 announcement and the “unveiling” of its new browser, codenamed “Project Spartan”, I was amazed… not by what it was so much as what it wasn’t.

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Aaron Gustafson’s NotebookJan 16, 2015

Spelling Errors, Exclusions, and Packages, Oh My—Working Drafts at the W3C

Here’s a bit of a round-up of some interesting work that came out of the W3C this week.

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Aaron Gustafson’s NotebookDec 18, 2014

Visualizing CSS3 Transformations

CSS transformations are amazing, but they can be confusing too. I put together a browser-based tool that should help you understand how the functions are applied and why it matters.

Aaron Gustafson’s NotebookNov 4, 2014

CSS Variables are a Bad Idea

For numerous reasons outlined herein, I’m not convinced there’s an upside to CSS variables.

Aaron Gustafson’s NotebookJul 20, 2014

The “Native” vs. “Stylable” Tug of War

In his astute post “ ‘Native experience’ vs styling select boxes ” , Bruce Lawson correctly identified a common tension in the web world:

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Aaron Gustafson’s NotebookMar 4, 2013

Presto Change-o

As you’ve probably heard, Opera has announced that they are abandoning their Presto rendering engine in favor of Webkit . CTO Håkon Wium Lie (you know, one of the guys who invented CSS ) has stated that this will allow Opera’s resources...

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Aaron Gustafson’s NotebookFeb 9, 2012

This Must Not Happen!

When I opened my inbox this morning, I nearly fell over. According to Daniel Glazman , co-chair of the CSS Working Group at the W3C , browser makers are considering supporting the WebKit vendor prefix ( -webkit-* ) because the web...

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Aaron Gustafson’s NotebookFeb 3, 2012

HTML5 is the new DHTML

In a recent post, Adrian Roselli ranted a bit about the awkward position we are in with regard to HTML 5 . Here’s a taste:

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Aaron Gustafson’s NotebookNov 8, 2011

Slides from FoWD NYC 2011

Below you’ll find the slides from the talk I gave earlier today at Future of Web Design titled “ HTML 5: Smart Markup for Smarter Websites .” It’s been a long day, so that’s it for now. I’ll post my notes from some of the talks I caught...

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Aaron Gustafson’s NotebookAug 5, 2011

Experimenting with Grids Using eCSStender

In preparation for the launch of 10K Apart (Responsive Edition) from Mix Online and An Event Apart , I’ve been feverishly working on a modest implementation of the proposed CSS 3 Grid Layout module (also referred to as Grid Alignment in...

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Ben WerdmullerNov 20, 2010

Keeping the web decentralized

Tim Berners-Lee has an article in December’s Scientific American about the future of the web. It serves, in many ways, as a list of baselines - things that should be obvious to anyone who’s worked with the web for any real length of time. He argues for net neutrality, for open standards, and for the decentralization of web-based functionality; all things that I agree must be fundamental to the platform if it is to have a healthy future. It’s required reading, and worth sending to all your non-te

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Aaron Gustafson’s NotebookJul 9, 2009

I wasn’t planning to weigh in much on this subject, but I’ve been asked by several people for my thoughts, so here we go…

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Ben WerdmullerMay 11, 2009

Notes from a working group

Standards geek: "I think we need to establish a standard for representing poetry on the Internet. I've drawn up this draft which encapsulates stanzas inside an Atom feed. It's pretty simple; the spec fits on a page, so it should be easy to implement." Visual poet: "That's pretty cool, but what about visual poetry? You know, that Fluxus kind of stuff? Because you can't really separate that into stanzas." Standards geek: "Hey, you're right. I'd better create a new element for visual poetry." Vi

Aaron Gustafson’s NotebookFeb 26, 2008

Automatically opting-in to IE8’s Standards Mode

As some of you have read (or heard ), WaSP organized a Round Table discussion on IE 8’s standards mode and its default behavior of opting-out any sites that don’t engage in version targeting . We discussed a few different aspects of the...

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Afterhours

AfterhoursOct 1, 2007

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Aaron Gustafson’s NotebookSep 11, 2007

Alex Russell is not a heretic

First off, let me preface this by saying I just got back to the East Coast after catching a red-eye from San Francisco on Saturday night, so if I seem a bit incoherent, that’s likely why.

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