Posts tagged “standards”
Obama versus McCain: Web Standards
Despite his carefully cultivated “maverick†image, McCain is playing it traditional and conservative by using HTML 4.01, the W3C spec from 1999. Obama shows himself to be much more progressive, adopting the 21st century XHTML 1.0 transitional standard. Obama is RESTful » Idol Hands: Days in the Life of an Alpha Geek
Facebook, MySpace et al : Open up or die
Interesting article from The Economist on how social networks may be falling into the same trap that AOL and Compuserve have done in the past. Two of the biggest online phenomena of the past couple of years—social networks such as Facebook, and virtual worlds such as Second Life—look an awful lot like AOL did in [...]