Interesting debate going on over at Jeffrey Zeldman’s site about the state of web standards. Just last week Jeffrey was profiled in an article in BusinessWeek with the title “Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards. It’s a great article showing the grassroots effort he co-founded to get the browser companies to follow the W3C’s standards.
As for a crisis in web standards, there is none. Yes, there hasn’t been a ton of movement on CSS 3 …
I exclusively use the Mac OS for all my development, with occasional forays into Windows via Parallels for checking in Internet Explorer 6 & 7. Some people like Dreamweaver’s integrated approach with FTP and editor in one, but I’ve always felt that Dreamweaver was a huge resource hog. I prefer using a couple of tools that are best in breed rather then the Swiss army knife approach. …
From time to time people ask me how I learned how to hand code HTML and CSS. I learned by reading a bunch of books and from lots of trial an error. Below are a list of books I recommend for someone who wants to start hand coding HTML and CSS. If I was just starting I would start with the HTML Dog book. If I had some coding experience and just wanted to learn proper use of CSS I would pickup the Dan Cederholm books Web Standards Solutions and Bulletproof Web Design. …