The web is constantly changing and 2010 will be no different. Recently the Web Standards Project announced a change of direction, which really isn't all that surprising. The "war for web standards" as Aaron Gustafson call it is far from over, but a lot of people in the industry has...
XHTML was the new black a decade ago and a lot of loud people said it was the best thing since sliced bread. Even though it wasn't half bad, it had one important culprit: it was allowed to be served as text/html instead of only application/xml. There are many reasons...
Some time ago a bunch of newspapers demanded to get a higher search rank from Google. The reason was that they didn't master even the simpliest of search engine optimization (SEO) skills and thus wanted to be given a freeride in pagerank. Nice try, insert coin. Now the New York...
There has been a lot of buzz lately regarding validation and accessibility. The W3C validator is a classic tool for validating your site, but some accessibility issues are harder to detect. We have now released the NetRelations Inspector for public usage. This tool can be useful to find accessibility issues...
Flash and similar techniques have always been a problem when it comes to search engine optimization, since the robots don't know how to index the binary files. Google recently announced that their search algorithm has been expanded to use Adobe's searchable library, enabling a crude form of Flash indexing. Google's...
The standardistas of the world often take a beating, but this time we got reinforcements by the most unlikely ally imaginable: say welcome to the Poetic Prophet a k a the SEO Rapper. This is not an April's fool joke, but a rap artist singing about web standards and search...
About a year ago, a friend asked me how Microsoft would obtain world domination with Silverlight, since almost everyone already have Flash installed and Silverlight is yet another browser plugin. The answer was as simple as horrifying: Windows Update. There is no need to worry about such things as user...
The IE team has been taking crap from pretty much everybody for uncountable years. Despite several CSS improvements, the feature list of IE7 was a disappointment to many people and there has been silence for a whole year since then. But suddenly something stirs in the wind: Dean Hachamovich announced...
Ten years ago, the Browser Wars raged. The new millennium tried to start fresh but it was actually the medieval period of web coding: nested table layout, spacer gifs, presentational markup and other atrocities. Then there was Zeldman. Not Zeldman. Jeffrey Zeldman was one of the early preachers in the...
I just read an article entitled Top blogs fail W3C Markup Validation. While the result doesn't come as a surprise at all, it is still terrifying to see it confirmed once again. But I fail to understand why I have to see these reports appear year after year. Validation is...
I think there is more than enough of acronyms out there, but one cannot deny the power of monikers when it comes to bringing a technology into mainstream focus. XMLHttpRequest was invented in 1998 but very few knew about it. Seven years later, someone came up with the name Ajax...
The classic attitude towards Flash is that while it is an excellent tool for interactive visual effects when applied properly, it is a pain in the back when it comes to accessibility and semantics. This black-and-white view often leads to arguments between the Flash developers and frontend coders. Since I've...
Not that I'm a fan of The Eagles, but this awaited list from the IE team simply "could be heaven or this could be hell". Markus Mielke recently published the list we have all been waiting for: CSS details for IE7. In short, large parts of CSS 2.1 has been...
Things have really hit the fan this past week. It all started with Björn Höhrmann leaving the W3C with an open letter, soon followed by an angry reaction by none other than Jeffrey Zeldman and then the snowball really took off. W3C was further questioned by Eric Meyer in Angry...
I've had a look at the May 14th release version of Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft's Expression Web Designer (codename Quartz), one third of the Expression series also including Interactive Designer (codename Sparkle) and Graphic Designer (codename Acrylic). Unlike Interactive Designer that targets WinFX Runtime Components Beta 2, the...
Recently the CSS Naked Day was held on the net. A lot of sites in the blogosphere were intentionally stripped of their style clothes, revealing the markup behind it. But I still hear a lot of people in the business who haven't grasped one of the most fundamental aspects of...
UltraEdit is one of the best text editors out there and I have recently spent some time using version 11. It has a lot of features that will aid the development process, such as Unicode/UTF-16 support and code folding, in addition to the excellent functions already delivered in previous versions....
Contents: Introduction No thanks, I'm just browsing A long time ago, in a browser far away The wild web What are web standards? XHTML : the new breed Finding your style using CSS Cleaning up the table Dynamic stuff Meet your DOM Why do I have to read all this...
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