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Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Escaping This Madness

…reasons why everyone who works with this stuff eventually ends up bald.

Tim Bray is now working for Sun, and as a result, he’s resigning from the W3C’s Technical Architecture Group (TAG). He mentioned this in a cleverly titled post, like so:

as displayed in Tim's post header

Unfortunately, the old escape/unescape two-step goes haywire when you view the post’s title from the sidebar on another page of his weblog:

escaping kerfluffle in the sidebar

When viewed in an aggregator, an entirely different bit of the title goes awry:

escaping kerfluffle in the RSS feed

I think I’m going to take up gardening, or ASCII flat files.

:: Dave Walker 07:53 (EST/EDT) [+] ::

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:: Comments (10)

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Raw wrote:

Title: Great Escaping

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Tim Bray titled one of his posts which nicely demonstrated one reason we need Atom - Dave Walker has...

sju wrote:

Title: news aggregator

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can you tell us, which aggregator do you use?

Raw wrote:

Title: Great Escaping

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Tim Bray titled one of his posts which nicely demonstrated one reason we need Atom - Dave Walker has...

d.w. wrote:

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I use NetNewsWire Lite, usually -- the current beta with Atom support. I imagine other aggregators choked on that post as well, so there's no slight on NNW intended.

Randy Charles Morin wrote:

Title: Resign from TAG?

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I was in Florida in March and missed this. Why does Tim Bray have to resign from TAG. Seems like were losing a top Dude.

d.w. wrote:

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As I understand it, the TAG bylaws only allow one representative per corporation, and Sun was already being represented by (IIRC) Norm Walsh, so Tim deferred.

Randy Charles Morin wrote:

Title: Rules

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