Entries Tagged 'Standards' ↓

and we’re not gonna take it any more: March For Web Standards | Washington, DC.

has posted the first clued in article about the questions surrounding AAC/WMA/MP3: It’s the Standard, Stupid [via Damien Barrett].

the business value of web standards. Some day, maybe soon, you’re going to need this article.

seems to be the link to David Heller’s article over at Boxes and Arrows: HTML’s Time is Over. Let’s Move On. He writes, “Ultimately, I donft see a long term future for HTML as an application development solution. It is a misapplied tool that was never meant to be used for anything other than distributed publishing.” Unfortunately, a lot of people seem to be misinterpreting that as saying there’s no future for (X)HTML, period. It’s not. He’s talking about a much much narrower field than that: enterprise application development.

For those kinds of applications, and such applications alone, he’s right on the mark. In a more general sense, however, HTML is not dead at all - which I hope is precisely why Heller limited himself to a much narrower subject. The web grew in spite of enterprise application developers, not because of them. The web grew - and continues to thrive - because it required NO dev tools beyond Notepad or (in the day) TeachText. Anyone who forgets that (or never learned it) does so at their peril.

XHTML 2 and all that. Another perspective.

seems pissed today: Semantic obsolescence. “I bought into every argument the W3C made that keeping up with standards, validating, and using semantic markup now would somehow ‘future-proof’ my site and provide some mystical ‘forward compatibility’. How about some fucking payoff now? How about some fucking compatibility?”

I think I agree with him.