Yesterday afternoon the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the first public working draft of the HTML 5.0 specification. The official press release can be found here. Its taken 11 months since work began on HTML 5.0 for this first public working draft to get released. A pretty impressive effort in my opinion, having first [...]

We’re changing the name of our Firefox extension and we’d like to solicit your help in return for the opportunity to feel good and win an iPod Touch at the same time. The current working name is ‘Search Thresher’ which I’m sure you’ll agree, is too much of a mouthful. In order for you to [...]

Microsoft announced last week that Internet Explorer 8 passed the Acid2 test. This is a milestone because IE has never been supportive of standards in the past, forcing Web developers to create multiple versions of the same code to ensure their Web sites were compatible with as many browsers as possible. This is a serious [...]

Microsoft is claiming that the new version of Internet Explorer (IE 8.0) will be more supportive of standards. What they’re not saying is what standards they’ll support. I hope they choose to support the W3C, because as far as I’m concerned, they’re the most important standards available. One of the standards I’d like Microsoft to [...]

I’ve been interviewed about my opinion regarding Web 3.0 on numerous occasions and thought it was time to write about it here as a way of drawing a line in the sand for future reference. It was actually Jason Calacanis’ twitter message about his definition that inspired me to put my thoughts on paper, so [...]

I picked up an interesting concept via Sam Sethi’s twitter today. It involves implementing white lists using OpenID and FOAF profiles to help resolve the issue with online identity. I don’t wish to commentate on OpenID or FOAF. I do however, want to voice my concern over the misuse of the word ‘identity’ and how [...]

We’re looking for an enthusiastic Web designer to build a brand identity with associated iconography for Content Labels. This is a great opportunity for the successful artist to contribute to the world of open standards. About Content Labels When browsing the Web, wouldn’t it be nice to get more information about Web sites before having [...]