AJAX without the X: The History of JSON
Published: January 1, 2005
The history of JSON is the history of the people that created it, and what they set out to do with the software they wrote.
A Tale of Two Standards
Published: June 3, 2004
It was 2004, and Ian Hickson had just got out of a W3C workshop organized by Adobe. The topic was how […]
The Many Faces (And Names) of Mozilla
Published: February 9, 2004
One of the web’s most influential browsers has roots that date back to its earliest days, and an evolution that has transformed it several times over.
What Happens When Yahoo Acquires You
Published: February 4, 2004
I could have titled this “A Tale of Two Acquisitions,” but I already used that one. Still, we’re going to […]
Checking “Under the Hood” of Code
Published: January 1, 2004
If you’re a developer today, you likely take advantage of built in tools for web debugging every day. They came from the smallest places, and it took years to get them where they are today.
Year of A List Apart
Published: May 23, 2003
I’d really recommend reading a thread on Eric Meyer’s blog from early 2007. In it, he poses a pretty simple […]
The Rise of CSS
Published: May 1, 2003
The web’s history is filled to the brim with stops and starts and wrong turns. It is a technology that […]
15 Years of WordPress
Published: April 1, 2003
It was January of 2003, and 19 year old blogger and amateur programmer Matt Mullenweg was distraught. In a post […]
An Early History of Web Accessibility
Published: March 14, 2003
Accessibility is one of the foundational principles of the World Wide Web. Fighting to preserve that principle are the creators behind the most powerful tools, some of which still exist today.
The Decade-Long Path to Web Fonts
Published: August 2, 2002
The web has a long and storied history with text, typography and fonts. Most content on the web is text. And at […]
Archiving the Web
Published: October 24, 2001
Archiving the web is an important mission and the resources it requires is immense. It is thanks to a select few that it gets done at all.
The Evolution of Blogging
Published: October 8, 2001
By 2001, the world blog had entered Internet vernacular, both as a noun and a verb. Mena Trott was one of these […]