Archive for August, 2007
Tablesless websites: an explanation
Saturday, August 18th, 2007
[Update 10/27/09: Apparently this is still a valid article. I've rewritten it for that purpose.]
Long ago I used to have to (frustrated) explain what a “tableless” website was. By 2007, it was commonly adopted that a layout should be controlled through the marriage of HTML and CSS. Yet even then, people complained when I built them a CSS-driven site with semantic HTML. Why? They saw a table. Being used for tabular data.
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Tags: Accessibility, css, html, semantic markup, table-less websites, UI, usability, UX, website building, website production
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Web 2.0 – Meaningless?
Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Since its inception, the buzzword has been used almost too much. The term “Web 2.0,” though its use is generally attributed to those less involved with the development of websites (the general public), its use is not specific to any group of people. It’s a helpful way to explain a set of technologies, only with one problem—the meaning of Web 2.0 is not known. When O’Reilly originally coined the term, they had a set list of definitions for Web 2.0, but, as many authors noted, the Web 2.0 conference was absent of those who would definitely be able to give a more concrete definition of Web 2.0 to developers. But developers nonetheless use the term as a sort of translation between the business-oriented and the technically-minded people. After all, it’s friendly than explaining perhaps the several different technical definitions that encompass Web 2.0.
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Tags: AJAX, buzzwords, web 2.0
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