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 W3C being fast/slow moving or if you like/dislike how they decide things, the validator(s) have been there all along, for you, me and us all to use. They have created assurance where there wasn’t any, they have been a support when you needed them and they have been nagging you and forcing you to up your game when it comes to your code. If you work with front-end code in the slightest they have played a major part in how your work has been shaped.
Three Firefox add-ons for web workers
Firefox Usage Worldwide in Sep 2009 by ottodv
No modern computer should be without Firefox, it is even being installed by default on our machines at work by our IT team, and hey, it is free for anyone and everyone to download, so if you haven’t already, you should. It works on Windows, Mac and Linux.
There are a few things you can install to improve Firefox a bit though, and no one within a web design/development agency or similar work place, should be without the following three tools, if nothing else because it will make your life a LOT easier if your end product is web based in the slightest.
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