Rebuilding the Web We Lost

We have the obligation to never speak of our concerns without suggesting our solutions. I’ve been truly gratified to watch the response to The Web We Lost over...

What Works: The Web Way vs. The Wave Way

Google Wave is an impressive set of technologies, the kind of stunningly slick application that literally makes developers stand up and cheer . I’ve played with...

Who will save the tables?

About a decade ago, the web development industry made a decisive shift towards support for web standards . Though the effort encompassed many related efforts...

Embedded Journalism

I want you to place the text of this blog post on your own site. But I don’t want you to do it just by copying and pasting it into your own blogging tool....

So, You'd Like To Map Your Site

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...

Tidy for ActiveX

Given the fact that Macromedia and Microsoft have both listed the changes coming up for working around the Eolas-mandated modifications to Internet Explorer,...

link hijinks

It’s time to revisit this suggestion from 1996 . I’ve been saying for years that the < link > tag will be the savior of the web, and the proposal...

iframe RPC

You should all know that Eric is a goddamned genius. His remote scripting system using javascript and iframes is just brilliant and, frankly, I resent him for...