While I was reading Jonathon’s CSS Oath of Allegiance it hit me quite forcefully that I’m surrounded by web standards people. I don’t know if any and all are members of WSP (Web Standard’s Project), but I am seeing a zeal like adherance to standards that causes me some qualms if I dare to step my little toe out […]
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Web Services Working Group
I’m extremely pleased to see the formation of a new working group at the W3C. It will be responsible for generating some meaning of the chaos that is Web Services. I may not be an adherent of the “Standards at all cost” club, but we do need to have standardization in three specific areas: Protocols Syntax Semantics Syntax is […]
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Zeldman CNet interview
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Never noticed this CNet article with Zeldman before. Hmmm. Seems as if the questions the interviewer is asking echo things — such as the WSP organization not being that much of an influence with Microsoft, but having a negative influence with the Netscape 6.0 release — that I’ve been saying lately. Guess my interpretation […]
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More WaSP Sucks
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. After the initial fairly unpleasant comments attached to a weblog I wrote earlier, basically blasting WSP (Web Standards Organization, at http://www.webstandards.org), I’ve had several thoughtful responses from readers leading me to want to respond in kind. To be honest, I never was that interested in WSP or its initial efforts. I support […]
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WaSP Sucks
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Updated: 12/19/01 The really great thing about weblogging is you can set your own rules. When I wrote an article for O’Reilly about The Tyranny of Standards I had to accept the comments of the readers without being able to comment in return — O’Reilly would really prefer its authors to NOT get […]