Validation: coming soon to a web site near you Ben Buchanan discusses the challenges involved in a recent project to re-write the homepage of Australian IT so as to make it standards compliant, in an interview with Maxine Sherrin published at Web Directions. Ben points out that the bigger the website, and the more third party advertising involved, the greater the overall lead time of the task. I ... Read full entry

From Switches to Targets: A Standardista's Journey. Eric Meyer, also writing at A List Apart, is not in favour of Internet Explorer 8's version targeting feature: As I read through Aaron Gustafson's Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8, my immediate gut reaction was deeply negative. The version-targeting mechanism Aaron described was just wrong, completely backwards, the exact opposite of what we ought to be doing. ... Read full entry