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Thursday 21 September 2006
For the Love of HTML
Back in the dark ages of 2000, Simon St. Laurent started up the XHTML-L mailing list.
The past year or two it’s become one of those sleepy lists that you forget all about until someone mails a query to it.
Here’s a recent exchange:
Hi, sorry for this but have not receieved any mail from this groups for a long time. regards - A
They are all back to HTML 4 - L
I’ve gone back to HTML 3 - P
I don’t know about you, but for some reason this made me laugh in the proverbial out-loud fashion so I thought I would share it with you here.
Filed under: humor, standards, web design and development, w3c
Posted by: Molly | 9:20 am |
September 21st, 2006 at 10:43 am
I love the term “sleepy list,” that made me laugh!
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This is what we call in showbiz, a plug.
=) take care Molly
-Mik
September 21st, 2006 at 3:15 pm
It made me smile too
September 21st, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Classic!
And…learning HTML 4 from a book written by you was what kicked-off my whole interest in web design at the beginning (and that was in late ‘97).
September 22nd, 2006 at 3:47 am
Cool. So we’re all going backwards… Today a client actually asked me if I could add a javascript mouse trail to their site… :-/
September 22nd, 2006 at 4:40 am
Yes, HTML is the new black. Pity because xHTML is way more effective getting people to use web standards.
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:23 am
It’s funy because it’s true!
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:31 am
That’s okay, one of my clients just asked me if they could edit their webpage using Microsoft Word….
September 24th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
I like a specific persons sig, some will know it…
Whether you use html or xhtml it works fine. I won’t even bother to get into discussion about one versus another. I have also belonged to the list for years, as well as many others, and traffic is not that busy on the XHTML list. The CSS D list is one of the busier lists and I do not get a chance to read all that mail.
Back to the sig …
‘Be strict to be cool.’
I wholeheartedly agree. Following strict is not 100% prefect, but it covers a lot of territory. Lose the deprecations, folks, and think about how you are actullay using the markup.
Take care Molly.
September 26th, 2006 at 12:28 am
I call that a meditation list, very resting for once
September 28th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Let’s back to HTML 3!
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