Stop using Ajax! James Edwards aka Brothercake, and co-author of the The JavaScript Anthology, argues the case: See, the web already was accessible to everyone. Tim Berners-Lee's original vision for the web was all about universal access; and the technologies involved - such as HTTP and HTML - were designed to be platform and device agnostic; it shouldn't matter what kind of technology you use to access the web. ... Read full entry

Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites. Guidance for just the sort of thing all web developers thrive on: the challenge of "web standardising" large, intricate, websites. So the book starts with the challenges a Web team might encounter while making the switch to a "Web Standards" - based Web development approach. If you don't know what that means, then you are probably not the intended audience for ... Read full entry

The future of web standards, by James Bennett. Simmering discontent with the pace, or lack of pace, at which the W3C develops standards, or recommendations, for web based technologies has been boiling over into rage in some quarters recently. The world of standards-based web design and development has been undergoing something of a shake-up these past few days; Andy Clarke's CSS Unworking Group seems ... Read full entry