At a time when millions are losing trust in the the web’s biggest sites, it’s worth revisiting the idea that the web was supposed to be made out of countless l...

About a decade ago, the web development industry made a decisive shift towards support for web standards . Though the effort encompassed many related efforts...

If you’re reading my blog in a feed reader, c’mon over to the HTML version and take a look — it’s painfully bright! Thanks to Lilia for making a beautiful...

I’ve been on a big “there’s nothing new under the sun” kick lately, so let’s take a look at Infoseek’s sitelist.txt proposal from 1997, and deepleap.xml , f...

Olivier has offered a challenging analysis whose name explains his thesis: " Organizr is Nice, But Not a Web App ". The fundamental debate is whether...

There are already a lot of defined (if not quite standardized) possible values for the LINK element in XHTML. We’re using them for RSS Auto-Discovery and...

You heard it here first: Internet Explorer for the Macintosh is the new Netscape 4. On a more substantive Macintosh web development note, we know that OS X s...

Dork Showtunes, from an IM conversation with Andre: andretorrez : hey andretorrez : question andretorrez : i have a div anildash : ok anildash : and i’ve got...

It’s time to revisit this suggestion from 1996 . I’ve been saying for years that the < link > tag will be the savior of the web, and the proposal (label...

If you can overlook the abominable layout, this thorough description of the technical differences between the file formats of WordPerfect and Microsoft Word...

There’s a concept I’ve been meaning to write about for a while, but until I can fully articulate it, let me just let everyone in on the best reason (from a dev...

A helpful little tool: Waz Under lets you see anything that’s commented out in page’s HTML source code. There’s a bookmarklet there, too, that you can instal...

I remember reading about the element in some HTML reference 4 or 5 years ago, and then forgetting all about it. I guess I’m going to add it in to this site...

Alright, he gets my vote. This is Al Gore’s secret message in the HTML of his webpage : Thanks for checking out our source code! I plan to use this space...

How come Pyra ‘s homepage doesn’t have a link back to Jezebel’s background tiles ?...

Anyone want a quickie freelance web design job? Just need to spit out some PhotoShop/ImageReady files and a little basic HTML wrapped around it. No back-end st...

So I mentioned how much I like the new PocketPC’s … but one of the coolest parts ( Cam , are you listening?) is that many parts of the PocketPC interface are...

All the search engines I know of ( let me know if I’m wrong) parse out the scripting and comments in a site’s HTML when they spider it, but I was thinking t...

Well, it’s a doozy, but the W3C has come up with a proposal that I think is killer. XHTML 1.0 . In simplest terms, it’s a reformulation of HTML 4.0 (plus a...