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The "Mythical Man-Month" is now the "Mythical Token-Minute"?
Re:The <output> Tag on Saturday October 11, 2025 @10:54AM (#45549627)
The classical answer is that the S stands for Server-Side-Incude (SSI). SSI source typically uses the extension .shtml. More info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes

Ah, but it's (roughly) 88x31 CSS Pixels!
Just last week I updated one of those for Retina/HDPI:

https://houptlab.org/img/made-on-a-mac-20221117.png

Re:Fixed-Point HTML on Saturday September 24, 2022 @09:19PM (#32968118)
Thanks [I'm the author]. I tested with Chrome 105 on macOS and it succeeded. Possibly there are OS/plugin/etc issues?

Of course, I know there is no guarantee that every browsers innerHTML implementation will produce exactly the same result, but so far I haven't found any variation (Chrome, FF, Safari, Edge).

Re:HTTP/3 Is Fast on Thursday December 16, 2021 @11:57AM (#29580397)
I think this was a bug in the site, which appears to now been fixed.
Re:Cool URIs don't change (1998) on Thursday June 17, 2021 @10:30AM (#27539965)
Note that HTTP is also upgraded if the UA requests it with the Upgrade-Insecure-Requests header:

  $ curl -I -H 'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1' 'http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html'
  HTTP/1.1 307 Temporary Redirect
  location: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
  vary: Upgrade-Insecure-Requests
Re:Still Why No HTTPS? on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @12:04PM (#21815630)
Opps! You're right, the W3C only helped author it.

I was also wrong to say that w3.org never redirects to HTTPS. If the browsers sends a Upgrade-Insecure-Requests HTTP-header, then it redirects. That allows it to support all browsers as securely as possible.

Sites like whynohttps.com and observatory.mozilla.org should really test for this pattern.

Re:Still Why No HTTPS? on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:20AM (#21814302)
w3.org redirect to www.w3.org, but not HTTPS. This makes sense for the standards org that defines HTTP, and needs to maintain backwards compatibility.
Re:Ask HN: Startups that allow cats? on Monday August 01, 2016 @09:13PM (#12207242)