Oh Horrah!
The #2 Beta of the W3C *fussy* validator has just released.
I haven't had a chance to play with it yet since I just spotted it, but I can say the new look is vastly improved. You'll hardly believe you are on the W3C site!
Can't wait to give it a spin and a bit of a workout. Even if there is a wee bit of a typo on the page that says it releases on September 15th, 2004, so maybe we aren't allowed to hit it hard yet? Fat Chance!
And!!! I just received notice from Amazon that my copy of the new Eric Meyer book, "More on CSS" had shipped this afternoon. That release was not scheuduled until the 19th. Pleasant surprise! I have my copy on the way, so now I can suggest you grab one of your own since I now know I won't get stuck in eternal backorder if supplies run short. Greedy, aren't I?
One more little goodie would make the day complete. [Things tend to come to me in threes so I can hope.] It would be icing on the cake if I spotted a way to have the now dearly loved Web Developer Toolbar for FireFox link to the *fussy* validator rather than the standard one. That's an awfully easy and highly addicting method to click and check.
Hope you had a good and non-taxing day, too!
Farron
[and that _^..^_ who doesn't care as long as he's fed]
P.S. Great spring weather here again as well. Shorts were the order of the day after threats of snow flurries yesterday. Go figure. But *we* won't count that as number three good thing [or risk putting it in the body of this post] since *we* are greedy and want more, More, MORE! TaTa!!
I was just shown a link by a fellow LVS staff member that I do not want to lose, so I am adding it here.
MACCAWS... Making A Commercial Case for Adopting Web Standards
I might also suggest that anyone wanting to make a case for the advantages of designing to web standards to an employer or client might suggest they at least flip through Jeffery Zeldman's book “Designing With Web Standards” or look at a long time favorite site, Zen Garden and a new, soon to be favorite just discovered thanks to the MACCAWS site:
Be sure to take a peek and see some of the goodies there. I notice that the [until very recently] hybrid site, Happy Cog, has been reinvented and picked up an award here. And the most recent winner, Twinsparc, is absolutely lovely in my humble opinion. Since it posted on my birthday, I consider it a personal gift. [Wish I could take credit for being the designer...lol.]
I really need to get on the stick and work with this level of design and standards. Until the first of this year, enough of a percentage of my user base was still using good old Netscape 4.x as their primary, or only corporate, browsers that I was rather hopelessly stuck in beating all but *playtime* pages with hacks to accommodate them visually. But, like magic, they have finally started dropping that old browser like a hot potato in the last few months. What a freeing turn of events that has been! I can finally wander into the 21st century!
TaTa for now!
Farron & That _^..^_