Archive for category: Web standards

Most preposterous Australian sport could use some help    (2011.01.31)

Mr. HEATH SPENCE’s bobsleigh team needs a new site

Every happy Web developer is happy in the same way    (2011.01.25)

Bullish, on-message technology podcasts that treat people like the latest gadget defeat the purpose of inviting peole onto the show in the first place. Tech podcasts are a mutual admiration society I consider harmful

Mobile self-congratulation    (2011.01.19)

Why, one might ask, does the mobile version of the announcement of the Globe and Mail’s new mobile version suck?

Wanted: Aussie developers for quixotic project    (2010.12.28)

A project down in Oz needs highest-calibre Web developers and designers

Newspaper sites are so bad they require ‘public integrity’ to rescue them    (2010.11.28)

Why do newspapers think an “HTML5 product” will do anything their existing Web sites can do? (Updated 2010.12.06)

One more time: E-books do not contain ‘formatting’    (2010.10.18)

Craig Morgan Teicher is the latest æsthete to run screaming from E-book copy that is “swamped in code”

BookNet Canada Technology Forum pitch    (2010.10.07)

I proposed a session on structured documents for managers and editors for the BookNet Canada 2011 Technology Forum. The deadline for submissions was an insane six months in advance

Publishers as Flashturbators    (2010.08.31)

The Web is old enough that history can repeat itself. What’s happening now with E-books parallels what happened with Web sites in the early Aughties

Print-hostile pages    (2010.08.05)

New York outdoes itself in fucked-up “print-friendly” pages