BurningbirdWeb and tech standards
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. On today’s tenth anniversary of the birth of XML, Norm Walsh writes: I joined O’Reilly on the very first day of an unprecedented two-week period during which the production department, the folks who actually turn finished manuscripts into books, was closed. The department was undergoing a two-week training period during which they would […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Sam Ruby quotes a comment Microsoft’s Chris Wilson made in another weblog post: I want to jam standards support into (this and future versions of) Internet Explorer. If a shiv is the only pragmatic tool I can use to do so, shouldn’t I be using it? Sam responded with an SVG workaround, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. July 20th, 2000, the Web Standards Project issued an ultimatum to Netscape/Mozilla, saying, in part: Why are you taking forever to deliver a usable browser? And why, if you are a company that believes in web standards, do you keep Navigator 4 on the market? If you genuinely realized it would […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I was astonished to read the A List Apart article Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8 and even more astonished to read compliance with the message from Eric Meyer, Molly Holzschlag, and the WaSP organization. How the mighty have fallen is so very cliché but, oh, how appropriate. According to Aaron Gustafson, who wrote the ALA […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Virginia DeBolt provides a really nice grouping of links to writings related to the WHATWG. Among the writings are those related to accessibility, and there’s nothing I can add to this discussion that isn’t isn’t handled succinctly and completely by others. I did want to jump into the discussion related […]