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loquacious — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:44:51 -0800

ArsTechnica is reporting on the practice of altering and editing web-traffic enroute from the server to your client/browser. Is your ISP, work or connection path altering your requested documents? Find out here.

poopy — Fri, 06 Sep 2002 06:51:07 -0800

99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete An excerpt from an upcoming book by Mr. Zeldman in which he continues to argue the practice of standards compliance - "Held up as a Holy Grail of professional development practice, backward compatibility sounds good in theory. But the cost is too high and the practice has always been based on a lie." I enjoy his writing but he seems to be repeating himself as usual. Still, it is a good argument: where do we focus our priorities for future development - pure standards compliant CSS models, backwards compatibility, or somewhere in between? I know this has been discussed before but thought it postworthy due to the new book and all.

gazingus — Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:04:15 -0800

The Web Standards Project is back, now in easy-to-swallow blog form. Stand up straight! Close that HTML tag! And wipe that silly browser off your hard drive, mister! And the other one.

geir — Thu, 22 Feb 2001 04:09:24 -0800

A spectre is haunting the Web - the spectre of standards. Jeffery Zeldman takes a bold step and stops supporting "bad browsers". Will the Web follow?

patricking — Sat, 18 Nov 2000 13:39:09 -0800

what will be supported now that browsers are a-changin' again? handy resource from a Netscape product manager.

anildash — Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:51:59 -0800

Proprietary URLs? How many of these non-standard prefixes does your system support?

Just off the top of my head with the programs I have running right now, I can handle nap: aim: hotline: and a few others, not counting all the ones built into my browser.

More inside...

Foaf — Mon, 31 Jul 2000 15:44:07 -0800

The CSS Anarchists Cookbook How to ruin a designers pride and joy with with one simple file

Zeldman — Mon, 10 Apr 2000 06:16:53 -0800

The Web Standards Project blasts Microsoft's "arrogant" break with standards in IE 5.5/Windows Edition. Please read the press release and, if you agree, post it to your favorite mailing lists and news groups. This must not stand.