Jul 04 2007 at 2:48pm
There are many people still using outdated browsers. This is obviously a problem for webmasters, yet most of us don’t do anything about it. It’s not our problem, we say. We can’t annoy users by complaining about their browser version. But how do we expect the situation to ever change if we continue to be so complacent?
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Jun 05 2007 at 10:46am
Mike Cherim has another post today about the poor quality of free code. This is something I’ve come across many times – you think there should be a script out there to do what you need to do, go out looking, find something that looks good only to realize that they’ve got layout tables embedded in the PHP. Do you try to fix it or go look for something else? If there is nothing else, do you decide to make it yourself to avoid the hassle?
These developers don’t seem to realize that there is a problem with writing code like this. Here are 4 reasons why distributed code needs to be of high quality and standards compliant:
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Apr 17 2007 at 1:04pm
After all my troubles and rants about print stylesheets the other day I finally thought of a better way to make web pages printable: soure editing editing in Opera! This is a really simple and easy way to make a web page look the way you want it to for one-time viewing and printing.
Jan 31 2007 at 7:34pm
For the past year or so there has been quite lot of buzz about Microsoft’s new committment to web standards. They’ve talked about it on their blog, they’ve upgraded support in IE 7, and even released a new suite of standards compliant development tools. One of their employees has been named interim chair of the W3C HTML working group. Today eminent web standards evangelist Molly Holzschlag announced that she has been hired by Microsoft to consult on web standards.
By all appearances, they have changed their ways. Microsoft is now committed to web standards and working together with web developers. We can move on and embrace this new relationship. Some web developers really believe this.
But can we really? Have they really changed their ways for good? Read more…
Jan 24 2007 at 2:52am
(By Liam McDermott not Megan McDermott)
I’m blaming Plesk! It’s like the Windows of control panels, not allowing you to do anything for yourself. So when I needed to move meganjack.com over to meganmcdermott.com (and our server manages domains like they’re users) all I did was rename some directories, it worked. Unfortunately Plesk associates databases with domains, so when I deleted the old directory Plesk also deleted the databases associated with meganjack.com.
Doesn’t make sense, I know: you had to be there. 
If anything, I think that Apple will make leaps and bounds in the coming years due to the iPod being so popular
(Quoted from Adam K. in Megan’s post on the broken site and patform indepdendence).
There’s a saying that’s applicable here: ‘Takes one to know one.’
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I'm a Canadian web designer specializing in interface design, web standards, CSS, and site development with Drupal. By day I work at the University of Waterloo as Manager of Web Communications (currently on maternity leave). In addition to my full time job, I am managing editor at A Padded Cell and lead administrator at The Webmaster Forums. I like healthy food, yoga, the outdoors, and generally being a tree hugger. Until mid-2007 I was known as Megan Jack.
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