Yay Lycos! (We Think)

This showed up on a public W3C list back in July and just came across our radar.

Obviously good news if true. I can't find an example deployed anywhere else but jscript.dk. Anyone have an update for us?

Browser Upgrades, Netscape Style

Visit Netscape’s homepage using Netscape 4, and you may be asked to download Netscape 7 before proceeding. (You may return to the homepage if you prefer.) Netscape’s homegrown browser upgrade campaign targets Windows users but ignores N4/Mac – possibly because N4/Mac users are already redirected to a combination Netscape/Apple homepage.

It has architecture?

W3C has a Technical Architecture Group (TAG) that's supposed to worry about corner cases and consistency. Last week marked the publication of the TAG's first cut at an overview of the Web's architecture.

It's not light reading, and it doesn't say a thing about design or style or HTML, but those who care about the machinery in the back rooms might want to check it out.

WaSP at Digital-web

Digital Web, a darn fine webcentric pub, has WaSP stuff this issue, including a state-of-the-art Zeldman rant and a nice three-way conversation with Steven Champeon and Shirley Kaiser. Check it out!

Building A Better Lizard

Mozilla 1.1 has been officially released, and now stalks the countryside spreading improved support for CSS, HTML and DOM. In addition to a number of DHTML-targeted performance enhancements, Mozilla sports a suite of cool developer tools (like the ever-improving Venkman JavaScript debugger and DOM Inspector) and welcome user interface features (such as tabbed browsing, a choice of search engines, and control over pesky popup windows and images). Mozilla is quickly losing its geeky reputation and becoming a browser worthy of the masses.

Found a glitch? The Mozilla organization allows users to submit bug reports online. As always, be sure to validate your HTML and CSS (which we're confident you do on a regular basis) before submitting bug reports.

But it will be unexciting and I will lose customers...wrong!

The W3C Quality Assurance Interest Group has released How to achieve Web standards and quality on your Web site?, a useful set of talking points for dealing with those who pooh-pooh the idea of standards compliance for various reasons. Thanks to Matthew Farrand for the heads up.

W3C to Write Clearer Guidelines?

Yesterday, August 26, 2002, the Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group released a Working Draft of the specification guidelines for QA Framework. The goal of this document is to provide a framework for all Working Groups within the W3C to write "clearer, more implementable, and better testable technical reports."

Will this honestly result in W3C documents that are clearer to the public? It's difficult to say, but one irony is that while this framework is considerably more clear than some W3C information, it still contains many of the problems that the document is seeking to address!

Check out the QA Framework Specification Guidelines and decide for yourself.