Posts with tag ”webstandards”
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Brave new world of Web3
Web3 is everywhere these days. So what is it all about? Sixteen years ago I wrote about something called Web 3.0.
RIP WaSP
When I started this site almost 20 years ago, the web was a very different animal. It was messy, unpredictable and occasionally hostile. Every browser had its own interpretation of reality, and getting a website to behave consistently across them required equal parts skill, patience and ritual sacrifice.
The value of semantics
Bruce Lawson is one of my favorite technical speakers. Smart, funny, opinionated, and refreshingly unlikely to make you regret entering a conference room. So it was good to catch him at the @media conference in London this summer.
Musings about Adobe Muse
Do you remember Dreamweaver? Of course you do. Some memories refuse to die quietly.
Creating CSS Control Adapters
ASP.NET comes with a generous collection of pre-built controls designed to make web development faster and easier. And they do. Unfortunately, some of them also produce markup with all the grace and subtlety of a drunken rhinoceros rearranging your living room.
Why Web 3.0 will fail
Just when we were beginning to get comfortable with Web 2.0, with its gradients, rounded corners and breathless promises of a better tomorrow, the hype machine has coughed up another shiny new label: Web 3.0. Apparently, this is the future.
The road to web standards
Think of web standards as an attempt to make the web behave itself. They are a collection of technologies and recommendations designed to increase the chances that a web site will actually work.