Eric looks back on 25 years of CSS and remarks on how our hacks and workarounds have fallen away over time, thank goodness.
But this isn’t just a message of nostalgia about how much harder things were back in my day. Eric also shows how CSS very nearly didn’t make it. I’m not exaggerating when I say that Todd Fahrner and Tantek Çelik saved the day. If Tantek hadn’t implemented doctype switching, there’s no way that CSS would’ve been viable.
The WaSP is closing its doors. It has been a privilege and an honour to serve with such a fine organisation.
Announced at SXSW, this is the curriculum that the Web Standards Project has been working on. Education, education, education.
The WaSP kicks it up a notch. Putting bookmarks in books was just the beginning. Now you can tag bad developers with the web standards equivalent of the scarlet letter.
Here's the first initiative from the WaSP Street Team: labeling outdated webdev books in libraries as hazardous material.
Great news from Redmond: IE8 passes the Acid2 test.
I was feeling very browbeaten after Molly's tirade but count on Jeffrey to put things in perspective.
Hail to the King... so says Business Week.
Seeing a full-grown wasp crawl out of a roach suddenly makes those Alien movies look pretty derivative.