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Archive for January, 2006

Developers Recommended to Support IE Rivals

January 25th, 2006 by Kel Smith

Web developers have been told to ensure that the sites they build are operable with browsers which rival Internet Explorer. This includes open-source heroes Firefox and Apple’s Safari. Deri Jones of SciVisum explains their reasoning and has the XiTI metrics to back it up:
Jones advised web developers to develop code around the W3C’s Cascading Style […]

Semantics Rule

January 3rd, 2006 by Kel Smith

Taken from StraightUpSearch, yet another reason to get on the Standards Bus:
“Why should my corporation care what the page markup looks like? Because search engines do. They care so much that they have dedicated teams of programmers who do nothing but define meaning between elements on a page, developing algorithms to assign rank and value […]

Run That Past The Consortium

January 2nd, 2006 by Jeff Louella

Winning ‘em over one at a time

January 2nd, 2006 by Tim Crowe

The most common discussion when it comes to standards is about how you convince your boss or company that standards are the right way to go. There are a million good articles around the Internet about why standards are hot. There are just as many standards junkies working for organizations that can’t see the benefits. […]