At a time when millions are losing trust in the the web’s biggest sites, it’s worth revisiting the idea that the web was supposed to be made out of countless...
About a decade ago, the web development industry made a decisive shift towards support for web standards . Though the effort encompassed many related efforts...
If you’re reading my blog in a feed reader, c’mon over to the HTML version and take a look — it’s painfully bright! Thanks to Lilia for making a beautiful...
I’ve been on a big “there’s nothing new under the sun” kick lately, so let’s take a look at Infoseek’s sitelist.txt proposal from 1997, and deepleap.xml , from...
Olivier has offered a challenging analysis whose name explains his thesis: " Organizr is Nice, But Not a Web App ". The fundamental debate is whether...
There are already a lot of defined (if not quite standardized) possible values for the LINK element in XHTML. We’re using them for RSS Auto-Discovery and, of...
You heard it here first: Internet Explorer for the Macintosh is the new Netscape 4. On a more substantive Macintosh web development note, we know that OS...
Dork Showtunes, from an IM conversation with Andre: andretorrez : hey andretorrez : question andretorrez : i have a div anildash : ok anildash : and i’ve got...
If you can overlook the abominable layout, this thorough description of the technical differences between the file formats of WordPerfect and Microsoft Word...
There’s a concept I’ve been meaning to write about for a while, but until I can fully articulate it, let me just let everyone in on the best reason (from...
A helpful little tool: Waz Under lets you see anything that’s commented out in page’s HTML source code. There’s a bookmarklet there, too, that you can install...