Will opensource code win the 2008 US election? Vishal Sharma makes a shrewd observation on the differences between the backend web technologies employed by US presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama. Hmm...

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

Melbourne web developer Josh Sharp has recently launched techAU. techAU aggregates both prominent and up-and-coming Australian bloggers who write about the new generation of the web and related technologies. Comes with a crisp, easy on the eye, interface. Now the challenge is to compose descriptive and eye catching post titles...

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