May 2004
May 31, 2004
Cheese-rolling gets back on track. I guess I missed the cheese rolling this year.
Smoke, Mirrors and Silence: The Browser Wars Reignite (via) This time it’s web standards vs whatever MS are cooking up for Longhorn.
Wikipedia enhancements
I don’t know when it happened, but Wikipedia has a stylish new design in mostly valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional (the front page validates, some of the inside pages do not) with a CSS layout to boot. They even have an option to turn off the single layout table used on their home page. The site seems much easier to navigate now and the organisation of the front page is a masterpiece of information architecture. When you’ve got over 250,000 articles just in the English version providing a useful home page is going to be a challenge, but Wikipedia pulls it off with aplomb.
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