Zeldman on Standards

To hope all designers and clients will one day stop striving for tightly controlled layouts is to miss the chance to persuade those who live and die by the pixel that standards are good for them, too.

- Jeffrey Zeldman on Pixelism, k10k, Mozilla, and generally everything in this industry that is keeping me … view full post

Is HTML on its way out?

Is HTML on Its Way Out?

Although HTML is widely used, it has several deficiencies, largely stemming from its origins as a no-frills tool rather than a power user’s panacea.

Backward thinking

Peel the skin of any major site, from Amazon to Microsoft.com, from Sony to ZDNet. Examine their tortuous non-standard markup, their proprietary ActiveX and JavaScript (often including broken detection scripts), and ill-conceived use of Cascading Style Sheets – when they use CSS at all. It’s a wonder such sites work in any browser.

They work in yesterday’s mainstream browsers because the

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XHTML problems

I think I just found a bug in Mozilla using tabbed browsing. My div popups, for example clicking on “add something” above, are loaded using the JavaScript onClick event, while the a href on the link is javascript:void(0) . Clicking on this link sets the title of the tab to “(Untitled)” which to me really shouldn’t be happening.

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I have moved over to XHTML

So far so good, except for IE6 users. It appears as though some parts of my style sheets aren’t loading. :| damnit.

Wolfenstein 5K

Wolfenstein 5K

Blow the heads off the monsters in this texture-mapped, first-person shooter crammed into 5K of JavaScript. I took a look at the source and it quite frankly looks like the JavaScript language has learnt how to vomit. Simply amazing.