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Rachel Andrew

Rachel AndrewAug 24, 2026

Multiple-column layout, rows, rules, and floats

Recently implemented in Chrome are two of my top asks for CSS—the concept of rows in multiple-column layout, and gap decorations for rows and columns in grid, flexbox, and multicol. Rows (using column-wrap) provide a way to use multicol on the web without risking scrolling up and down to read if the columns become taller...

Today I LearnedAug 23, 2026

ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

A controlled language for writing unambiguous technical instructions

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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage

Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageJun 7, 2026

.plan-26-23: Earth Embeddings, Emails Everywhere, and ERRNOOOs

TESSERA on the ESA homepage and at CVPR, GeoTessera 0.9 stabilising onto S3/Zarr, io-uring in OCaml, carbon credits in New Scientist and WSJ, and musings on internet malware again.

Faol's Blog

Faol's BlogBotMay 14, 2026

The protocol grows up

The AT Protocol is becoming an IETF standard. What that means and why it matters.

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rough notes from standard music lexicon meeting

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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage

Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageApr 3, 2026

A Proposal for Voluntary AI Disclosure in OCaml Code

Proposing a voluntary, machine-readable AI content disclosure scheme for OCaml spanning opam packages, dune, and per-module attributes, aligned with the W3C AI Content Disclosure vocabulary.

Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage

Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageMar 29, 2026

.plan-26-13: Oxidised, standardised, and syndicated

Publishing the OxCaml Labs year-one review, POSSE and AI content disclosure for the web, adopting the geo-embeddings Zarr convention for TESSERA, action PROPL at PLDI, the death of the grant application, and NASA's new swathe lidar mission.

Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage

Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageMar 27, 2026

TESSERA now supports the Zarr geo-embeddings convention proposal

Community feedback reshaped our Zarr store layout — years became a dimension, shards got bigger, and we retired the TESSERA-specific convention in favour of a shared geo-embeddings standard that also covers other models.

Anil Dash

Anil DashFeb 28, 2026

Why Apple’s move to video could endanger podcasting's greatest power

TL;DR: Apple is adding support for video podcasts to their podcast app Podcasts are built on an open standard, which is why they aren’t controlled by a bad algorithm and don’t have ads that spy on you Apple’s new system for video podcasts breaks with the old podcast standard, and forces creators to…

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Rachel Andrew

Rachel AndrewDec 20, 2024

A progress update on reading-flow

There's a First Public Working Draft of CSS Display 4, which includes the work on the new reading-flow property. The property aims to solve the issue where the source (and therefore tab) order of a page gets disconnected from layout when using CSS grid layout or flexbox. This is a problem I've been talking and...

Rachel Andrew

Rachel AndrewMay 26, 2024

Masonry and reading order

I recently wrote a post about the CSS masonry proposal on the Chrome for Developers blog. I was keen not to muddy the waters with anything that wasn't the main point of that post—which was to explain why the Chrome team felt that masonry should be specified outside of grid. Since then, a couple of...

We Distribute

We DistributeMar 19, 2024

The Efforts to Extend ActivityPub

ActivityPub has fostered a social web for millions of people. To grow, some developers believe it needs improvement. These are their efforts.

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Henrique Dias

Henrique DiasNov 25, 2023

We Need Website-Level Color Scheme Preferences

Since a few months ago, my website has a dark theme. So today I decided to casually open a PR to the darktheme.club website. On this PR, it is asked what mechanism is used to enable the dark mode. I selected JavaScript. It is unfortunate, but it is a reality.

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Rachel Andrew

Rachel AndrewSep 7, 2023

Why are we not still using tables-for-layout?

I was chatting with a couple of long-time web folk today. As often happens when those of us who lived through the browser wars get together, the talk turned to old browsers, and old hacks to get round the issues in those browsers. I was thinking through the timeframe of CSS becoming usable at all...

frankhecker.com

frankhecker.comDec 4, 2022

The Framework laptop and the world machine

My new laptop shows the extent to which the world in connected.

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Charles HarriesOct 11, 2022

The web is good now

A couple of notes on Chris Coyier's recent talk at CascadiaJS 2022.

Charles HarriesAug 3, 2022

I didn't realise that there's a specification for controlling browsers. But there is.

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet

Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMar 3, 2021

Thunderbolt Road

How Thunderbolt, the ultra-fast connector that recently turned 10, started life with a completely different look. (Fun fact: $400 Thunderbolt 3 cables exist.)

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet

Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetFeb 25, 2020

Not-So-Missed Connections

Just like your pile of old chargers, the world of mobile connectors was always messy. Standards did not help. Will regulation?

Ben Werdmuller

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

SimonCox.comOct 29, 2004

Silktide Sitescore website test

I reported the link to Sitescore at Silktide yesterday and wanted to do a fuller report today having been through the service a little more.

SimonCox.comSep 9, 2004

Brandchannel interbred

Recently brandchannel.com reviewed a commercial web site that I have spent the past five years dramatically improving. The site now conforms to WAI AA standards and is fully CSS driven.

SimonCox.comAug 17, 2004

Secret Ying Yang club

I noticed something interesting when I was using Bloglines this morning - both Eric Meyer's site and Mark Pilgrim's use the same favicon. Is it like a secret mark of the web standards in-crowd?

SimonCox.comAug 30, 2003

Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman

If, like me, you design web sites this is possibly one of the most important books I have ever read about the subject - Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman.