Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Joel Spolksy just spent several thousand words and accompanying diagrams saying one thing: we did things crappy in the past, and we should continue doing things crappy in the future because crap is easy. Where do I start? This upcoming battle will be presided over by Dean Hachamovitch, the Microsoft veteran currently […]
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Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve pulled the plug-in. It cleaned out the comment text, but not the name, URL, and email of the person. The email isn’t an issue, as WP ensures the email is clean; the URL and the name, however, are still an issue. A new comment isn’t the problem; edited comments […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Bob DuCharme has a guest post by the Chief Technology Strategist for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Sarah Bourne, on accessibility issues associated with microformats. She mentions both the abbr and include design patterns that others, most commonly Joe Clark, have brought up in the past. Ms. Bourne also has an interesting […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I thought it interesting and even odd how few people have remarked on the fact that Ray Ozzie began the opening keynote of a conference focused specifically at developers by talking about ads. My source for things geek, Planet Intertwingly, has had very few entries devoted to IE8. I imagine people […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Mathew Ingram has decided that the problem with the semantic web is that it’s as boring as dry toast. Of course, by Mathew’s standard, all the stuff that makes the web work is also boring as hell. It’s probably a good thing, then, that some people looked beyond the need for […]