Archive for the ‘Web Standards’ Category

August 23rd, 2009

When Standards Go Wrong

12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics - Berlin 2009 - Countries

Today while checking out the International Association of Athletics Federations website, I noticed a little link to an “Accessible Version”. For a start I think it is hilarious that the main website is not considered accessible and they need a separate version to do that. Having a look at all the bad layouts in Firefox, I figured that was a good move on their part. 6gk3m3wnav

May 7th, 2008

Distributed Tweets on the brain

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Now that Twitter has hit Japan in Japanese, and as I wait for the first official word about how that is going for the good people at Twitter Japan, I have been putting my mind to the future of Micro-blogging and more importantly, how important is Twitter in that picture.
There have been a lot of [...]

February 17th, 2008

Dependent Records hoax and blogger research standards

Recently Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten of The Next Web (a blog I also write for) reported on what was a breaking story on independent record label, Dependent Records, closing shop and making their entire catalog available on file sharing site, Pirate Bay. It turns out the story was a hoax, republished by a number of [...]

January 26th, 2008

Don’t Hurt the Web!

Firefox : Don’t hurt the web

I found a very nice little campaign today from the good people at the Mozilla Developer Center. They are pushing the open standards movement and have made a very nice little banner to help the effort. At UltraSuperNew Inc. we are big supporters and users of open standards, so I want to pass on [...]