Posts with tag ”webstandards”
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Brave new world of Web3
Web3 is mentioned everywhere these days, but what is it all about? 16 years ago I wrote about something called Web 3.0, but the vision shared by people back then was based on the recent emerge of Web 2.0.
RIP WaSP
When I started this site almost 20 years ago, the web was a completely different beast. Organizations such as the Web Standards Project (WaSP) were needed to bring order to chaos.
The value of semantics
Bruce Lawson is one of my favorite technical speakers, and it was great to see him at @media conference in London this summer. A few days ago he wrote HTML5 Semantics which gives a nice round-up of the state of semantics in November 2011.
Musings about Adobe Muse
Do you remember a thing called Dreamweaver? A decade ago it was a popular tool by Macromedia for building web sites, succeeding the infamous Microsoft Frontpage.
Creating CSS Control Adapters
The popular ASP.NET framework comes with a set of pre-defined controls, which can speed up web development. Unfortunately many of the controls will produce a result which is less than optimal when it comes to accessibility and web standards.
Why Web 3.0 will fail
Just like Web 2.0, The so-called Web 3.0 is yet another buzzword from the hype machine. It is used to describe a future web environment where simple pages are replaced by documents containing semantic information, which can be processed and further refined.
The road to web standards
Web standards are a set of technologies from standards organizations. By using web standards developers can maximize the probability that sites work satisfactory in most browsers and environments, making web content as accessible as possible.