Michael Boyle's weblog
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.
Dial-Up Revelations, by Meg Hourihan on the O’Reilly Network. A nice look at web standards and alternate access methods to network data from the perspective of someone away from high speed Internet access for an extended period of time.
a followup about mild upgrade notices on websites that are standards-compliant, that is, do not work well in NS 4.7 and the like. I decided against using such a beastie when I put up this design and I have had no complaints.
: 99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete; an excerpt from Forward Compatibility: Designing & Building With Standards. An excellent and typically provocative (though why that should be is a mystery) article.
: Web Standards for Hard Times in WebMonkey (which, incidentally, with Wired News might be the only part of that old empire that’s still relevant).
