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Send MSN Feedback. How can we improve? Please give an overall site rating:. Privacy Statement. Web standards are hot -- and hotly contested. Cotton, an even-keeled Canadian, discovered a passion for standards more than 20 years ago when figuring out how to digitize airplane maintenance manuals.
He's comfortable with the contradictory motives of standards groups: fierce competition one moment and gentlemanly cooperation the next.
It's a good mindset for the debates shaping the Web, which is the world's most important publishing medium and could become the world's most important software foundation, too. This is no easy job.
For years, Microsoft sidelined itself from the world of Web standards. Internet Explorer, especially the now-despised IE6, exemplified how spurning standards held back the Web. But Microsoft has performed an about-face.
With IE9, the company embraced a wide range of standards and jump-started the move toward hardware-accelerated graphics and text, a move that helped usher in high-performance Web games such as Cut the Rope and Contre Jour.
And with IE10, which just arrived with Windows 8, Microsoft embraced even more standards and built them into the operating system's cross-platform interface. Microsoft has often been at odds with others in the industry for Web standards. And it showed up late in the game with a new proposal for handling touch input on the Web. Cotton isn't just on the front lines of these standards battles.
Shankland: Are you worried about the tremendous momentum behind the move to native apps? Cotton: It's an interesting problem. What developers are looking for is an environment to build Web sites and apps as cheaply and effectively as possible.
I think the reason developers use tools like [Adobe Systems'] Flash and [Microsoft's] Silverlight are the developer tools that come with them. So partly my answer to the question of HTML vs. Microsoft is very interested in this, with products like Visual Studio. We've got performance challenges as well. We have to be very responsive to events like Facebook saying, "We're going back to a native app.
That's not got anything to do with the way the HTML5 spec is written. That's got everything to do with the development environment. Is there anything that could change Microsoft's mind so developers could get hardware-accelerated 3D graphics on the Web?
Cotton: We still are concerned about the security holes we believe WebGL offers. If we were ever going to implement WebGL, we think finding a solution to those problems is not optional but actually mandatory. The regulations state the Department of Justice 'views the use of certain law enforcement tools, including In addition to asking if anyone at the Justice Department is investigating any leaks internally to the New York Times , Cotton also wants to know if the president or members of his staff had prior warning of the raids earlier this month.
The Justice Department declined to comment. Harmeet Dhillon, a civil rights attorney representing the conservative investigative group, shared the order signed by U. District Judge Analisa Torres on Thursday. The order said the U. Because of this, Microsoft has allocated software engineers, test developers and program managers to assist the W3C with the work ahead.
Microsoft has a vast breadth and depth of experience in the challenges of supporting such a vast, dynamic ecosystem — after all, over a billion people rely on the safety, security, and compatibility of our operating systems today. We want to bring this expertise to the W3C to help with the challenge of revising the underpinnings of the Web.
Since August when I became a co-chair of the W3C HTML Working Group I have been trying to use my more than 10 years of W3C experience to help progress long standing issues on the specification, to define a testing infrastructure, and to push for more work in important areas that had not yet received enough attention — like accessibility. There is a considerable amount of work is still required before HTML 5 is finalized. There has been a lot of excitement in web development circles about HTML 5, and a lot of misconception about the status of the specification.
In order to do this the WG co-chairs have helped the WG come to consensus on a decision policy for outstanding issues.
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