I absolutely love this in-depth history of the web, written in a snappy, snarky tone.
In the beginning, there was no CSS.
This was very bad.
Even if you—like me—lived through all this stuff, I guarantee there’ll still be something in here you didn’t know.
Thoughts on frameworks, prompted by a re-reading of Resilient Web Design. I quite like the book being described as a “a bird’s-eye view of the whole web design circus.”
Web developers overwhelmingly rejected the draconian error-handing of XML …and yet today, web developers are embracing that very same error-handling model by rendering everything with JavaScript.
I don’t think it’s the way of the web to have your site fail and show a blank screen because some third-party dependency doesn’t load, JavaScript is turned off or because your developer left a trailing comma in a JavaScript object and didn’t test in Internet Explorer.
A fascinating examination by Hixie of web technologies that may have technically been “better” than HTML, but still found themselves subsumed into the simpler, more straightforward, good ol’ hypertext markup language.
The follow-on comments are definitely worth a read too.
A first bash at describing how to write (X)HTML5 documents that can be parsed as XML as well as HTML.
My words have been given new life in comic form thanks to the very talented Brad Colbow.
I think Gareth is reading my mind. Get out my mind, Gareth!
It looks like XHTML2 is going to get mothballed at the end of this year.
Steven Pemberton, one of my favourite long-term thinkers, talks about programming, markup and XForms.
A handy little tool to turn video embedding markup into valid XHTML.
An excellent passionate call to action by Eric explaining why the href attribute should be freed from the shackles of the anchor element.
This looks like it could be a very valuable resource indeed: a user-contributed and edited reference for HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
For those times when you need to validate your markup but you don't have a 'net connection.
I was feeling very browbeaten after Molly's tirade but count on Jeffrey to put things in perspective.
Useful markup statistics from Google, complete with snotty commentary.
You can skin Adium using just XHTML and CSS. Who knew?
Keep this one handy in case you have to use conditional comments to hide something from Internet Explorer.
This is something I always meant to do but never got around to: a gallery site for good liquid design.
There's a new microformat on the block.
The DOM support looks great.