Sponsor the W3C validator

By Mathias HellquistPublished: January 26, 2009 at 23:20 Tags: #accessibility, #frontend, #webdevelopment

Blimey, found this in my list of drafts, guess I didn't finish it because I started it between dishes during Xmas Day and family weren't too impressed with me typing away on computer.Anyways, just wanted to highlight that the guys behind the W3C validator (still) need support. Without the HTML validator (and the CSS validator etc) the landscape of what today is "semantic HTML" would have been infinitely different, and regardless of your thoughts on...

Feed Ticket

By Mathias HellquistPublished: January 19, 2009 at 14:24 Tags: #imtw, #rss

rss by Jinho.Jung

This is just general information for house keeping issues regarding this site. If you are one of the people who follow this site via the RSS feed, there may or may not be issues in the next few weeks. For my feed I am using the very competent and clever services provided by Feedburner. Now, I am not the only one finding them good, and in fact Google found Feedburner so good they decided to buy the company.As I (like most of western...

Back To The Future Of The Web

By Mathias HellquistPublished: January 14, 2009 at 01:56 Tags: #apps, #socialmedia, #ux

Back to the Future?

In April 2008 I wrote a blog post called FW: A question on what the 'future web will resemble' where I was trying to predict (well, give my view...) how I saw the web would pan out in the near future. My conclusion, which was based entirely on my own personal experiences and views, was that I would be looking for something somewhere that enabled me to manage "my web", either on the web or as a desktop application, and which would...

Developers == Janitors?

By Mathias HellquistPublished: January 7, 2009 at 09:00 Tags: #backend, #frontend, #rants

vi by Wen Z.

Sometimes developers get the craziest questions and requests, most often from people who are not fully understanding what a developer actually does. The most common of those is probably that they often are confused with IT/IS staff but I have over the years even been asked to sort out printers, air conditioners, TV's, projectors etc, just as if knowledge of those machines inner workings have come to me during my course of doing HTML/CSS/JS/PHP/C# as they apparently appear to be closely related, at...

Where the Devil is…

By Mathias HellquistPublished: January 5, 2009 at 15:17 Tags: #ux, #webdesign, #webdevelopment

Details

This is a re-post of a blog post I wrote for another blog in 2007, which is now defunct. The post itself is sort of timeless though so figured I could put it on this blog as well, if nothing else to archive it.

Just tying together an e-mail I received with an article I read and my general thinking of late (which was actually based on my flat, and what isn't working in it, though it is shiny...

Facebook, the behemoth

“Facebook now has 600 million users worldwide, generating an estimated 770 billion page views each month.” Apart from the jaw gaping obvious (and slightly) scary numbers of users, it had me wondering “How on earth (or…?) do you run a web site for 600 million users?”, so I started looking around for that.
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