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Martin Burns

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In an unexpected (but not undeserved) moment of Nielsenism, W3C has published a list of things which browsers should do, but often don't. These aren't so much focused on HTML non-compliance, but on the basic behaviour of browsers such as "Don't treat temporary HTTP redirects as permanent ones"

The issues which W3C has largely boil down to "Hey! We're not sitting down and producing robust standards for a laugh, y'know"

Martin Burns has been doing this stuff since Netscape 1.0 days. Starting with the communication ends that online media support, he moved back through design, HTML and server-side code. Then he got into running the whole show. These days he's working for these people as a Project Manager, and still thinks (nearly 6 years on) it's a hell of a lot better than working for a dot-com. In his Copious Free Time™, he helps out running a Cloth Nappies online store.

Amongst his favourite things is ZopeDrupal, which he uses to run his personal site. He's starting to (re)gain a sneaking regard for ECMAscript since the arrival of unobtrusive scripting.

He's been a member of evolt.org since the very early days, a board member, a president, a writer and even contributed a modest amount of template code for the current site. Above all, he likes evolt.org to do things because it knowingly chooses to do so, rather than randomly stumbling into them. He's also one of the boys and girls who beervolts in the UK, although the arrival of small children in his life have knocked the frequency for 6.

Most likely to ask: Why would a client pay you to do that?

Least likely to ask: Why isn't that navigation frame in Flash?

kinda short article ain't it?

Submitted by natasha on February 13, 2001 - 15:54.

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W3C is testy again

Submitted by rodneyreid on February 16, 2001 - 16:46.

When I first heard about this document, I thought it was going to be 'how to get around problems in current browsers' And that would have been a lot more useful out of them then more 'shoulddas'

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Simple declarative sentence anyone?

Submitted by incommunicado on March 5, 2001 - 22:05.

Given the reference to Nielsen, I thought the W3C might have explained themselves in English for a change. Ha!

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