Entries Tagged 'Web Design' ↓

Ben Cerveny, and Eric Costello: Transcendent Interactions. Ludicorp’s Presentation at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. Important stuff in here.

Elastic Design by Patrick Griffiths.

has been launched, designed by Paul Ford of Ftrain.com. He’s published a description of his work: A New Website for Harper’s Magazine. Go read the description and click around the site if you’re interested in the semantic web and such. A preview:

Harper’s is built upon a Semantic Web framework - albeit a primitive one. I’ve written about what the Semantic Web is, and why it matters before… [snip] Using this framework, Harper’s is divided into two parts: narrative content, like the Features and the Weekly Review, and a taxonomy (or ontology, depending on your preferred term), called Connections.

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.

pointed out Mark Pilgrim’s screed on the public-evangelist@w3c.org mailing list today. Karl is a YULblog participant par excellence, so if I am able to make it next month I’ll be sure to talk to him more about this. He clarifies that XHTML 2 is just a working draft - but even as such, it’s pretty hostile to the people who have been working with this stuff among the public.