Category Archives: Web Standards

Lessons Learned

bring it all into perspective
the tongue will steer the ship ahoy
spark up a flame
feel the pain of habañero sauce
a word’s forever
when we speak we set `em free
so watch your mouth
and you be careful what you say, Jimmy
—Newsboys, Cup O’ Tea (cf. James)
Every now and then I like to reaffirm my monumental witlessness lest it should […]

Dynamic Curly Quotes

If you are of the Internet Explorer browsing persuasion, you may have noticed that often, when I quote another website, the style of the font will be in italic but there won’t be any quotes around the reference. I released a change to the site today that should take care of this issue.
The problem […]

Business Cases for Standards Compliance

Netscape DevEdge: Strategy Central. Why are standards important? How can you reach more visitors, get a better search-engine ranking, shorter download time for your web pages and better accessibility? Could you be saving money by making web site maintenance simpler and reduce vendor lock-in? Get information to help make a business case for standards-based web […]

Behold, the Power of the Dark Side

I noticed this article on Slashdot (discussion here). I remember debating with John Bell about whether or not I would ever take a job at Microsoft. All feasibility aside, I’m not sure I really would. A lot of people make a living of demonizing Microsoft—I’m not a part of that crowd (I […]

Am I Missing Something?

So John Bell and I were talking about the Opera web browser (did you know version 7 was released today?). John said it seemed to hande more websites much better. I’ve since downloaded the new version and am declaring that the site still looks pretty cheesy.
What’s weird, though, is that my knee-jerk reaction […]