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Larry Masinter
Personal blog · masinter.blogspot.comwebaisystems
Larry Masinter writes Masinter's Musings, a personal blog at masinter.blogspot.com about web, ai and systems. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Larry Masinter's Blogspot for his posts on web standards, HTML5, and Flash, written from his position at Adobe. One commenter points to it as the place to understand his views.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog about Larry Masinter, Web Standards, IETF, Parkinson's, AI, Interlisp-D, Common Lisp, PDF, File Formats, documents, VR, Online life
What Hacker News says?
You can get a better idea by reading some of the blog postings written by Adobe's Masinter here over the last year: http://masinter.blogspot.com/ They include an explanation of why HTML5 being specified too well makes it anti-competitive, comments on why you shouldn't refer to HTML5 as a "standard", why Google is cheating at standards by employing people to work on them full time, and why irrational people hate Flas…
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on “Adobe's John Nack: Adobe is "sabotaging" HTML5?”Submitted Larry Masinter Musings: Over-specification is anti-competitive as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Larry Misinter: “Tired, retired, disabled? 'Not working any more'?” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Living Standards: “Who Needs IANA?” as a story · 1 points
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