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HTML day, Ottawa edition 🍁
August 2, 2025
12pm-5pm
Brown's Inlet Park
Come hang out and write some HTML!!!
More info ➡️ https://html-day-ottawa.vercel.app/
Not in Ottawa? Other locations + online event here: https://html.energy/html-day/2025/index.html
Maps in HTML as MapML is a survey question in the 2025 Survey of HTML. Answering the survey helps guide the direction of browser development. Help us bring standard web maps to the world wide web: take the survey!
MapML is the subject of the Content section, question 2, but your results are saved so you can do the survey section by section.
Blog post with more background: https://lea.verou.me/blog/2025/state-of-html/
https://survey.devographics.com/survey/state-of-html/2025
Many thanks are due to community member @leaverou
🚀 The #StateOfHTML 2025 survey is now open!
➡️ Take it now: https://survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey/state-of-html/2025/?source=leaverou
Spending time to fill these out thoughtfully is an investment into your craft, as browsers are using the results to make prioritization decisions.
You don't have to do it in one go (or even in one device).
Blog post with more background: https://lea.verou.me/blog/2025/state-of-html/
Big thanks to @sachagreif @dmitrysharabin @kadirtopal @foolip!
Is Google Maps profitable?
https://placing.technology/how-does-google-maps-make-money-or-the-curious-case-of-vanessa-mayer
"#Mercator projection is not a conspiracy of northern countries. It is a conspiracy of the southern #penguins. Look at the size of #Antarctica. It is HUGE!"
~ Javier Jimenez Shaw, at #FOSS4GE2025
The browser is slated to launch in the coming weeks, according to three sources familiar with the matter who spoke with Reuters. If adopted by the 400 million weekly active users of ChatGPT, OpenAI's browser could put pressure on a key component of rival Google's ad-money spigot.
Google, Amazon, and Microsoft used to support the GDAL Sponsorship Program as Gold Tier sponsors. Now only Planet and Esri do.
Anyway. I know plenty of people have said this before but "disabled" is the minority you can be forced to join with no consent or advance notice. You can see those tiny fonts fine, you've got two working hands and fine motor control, you can hear, you can walk an unassisted city block pain free on two working feet? Sure you can. Today. For now. Maybe tomorrow, too!
The moment we need seatbelts is the exact moment it is too late to put on a seatbelt, so we just put on our seatbelts now.
🔥 [New blog post!] The Hovercar Framework for Deliberate Product Design
https://lea.verou.me/blog/2025/hovercar/
How, paradoxically, explicitly fleshing out the ideal solution to a product problem (The North Star UI) can end up *both* saving time and frustration *and* improving the product.
Simon MacDonald
Maps for HTML Community
Lea Verou, PhD
Peter Hanecak
Howard Butler
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