So, What Does "HREF" Stand For, Anyway?
Today it occurred to me that, after a little over ten years of basic fluency in HTML, I have absolutely no idea why the href attribute is named “href”. Why not “url”, “link”, or even just “ref”?
This word - "Web" - I do not think it means what you think it means.
Somebody pinch me; this must be a nightmare.
Martian Mindsets
Sam Ruby filling in for Mark Pilgrim (and featuring Mark Pilgrim in the comments) skewers Joel Spolsky over his “Martian Headsets” piece on the IE8 standards-mode dilemma. I use the word “skewered” in the nicest way possible, of course.
W3C's Excessive DTD Traffic
“Our hope was that the authors of misbehaving software and the administrators of sites who deployed it would notice these errors and make the necessary fixes to the software responsible.” – You must be new here.
A pool for the W3C validators
This is a good idea. The w3c hosted validators tend to perform on the bad side of horrible. I've run the validator locally but never thought to look for mirrors.
The Rule of Least Power - W3C TAG Finding 23 February 2006
“There is an important tradeoff between the computational power of a language and the ability to determine what a program in that language is doing.”
CSS 3: A Giant Serving Of FAIL
“… CSS 3 is a joke. A sad, sick joke being perpetrated by people who clearly don’t build actual web apps…”
W3C Markup Validator Results for "You, me and the W3C (aka Reinventing HTML)"
Chairing the WG is one way to fix your validation issues! (yes, I'm just being mean now — ignore me. no but seriously.)