The History of the Web

In 2007, the web standards project entered the scene once more to push Microsoft to build its most standards-compliant browser to date.

I talked a bit about the importance of the WWW Wizards Workshop last time in my recap on the importance […]

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 story of how responsive images made its way into the browser doubles as an inside look at the standards […]

This article was originally published in CSS-Tricks. In August of 2013, Aaron Gustafson posted to the WaSP blog. He had a […]

In 2008, the team at Microsoft found themselves in quite the pickle. Let me back up. In 2002, the team […]

It’s easy to forget that HTML, which is an extremely simple programming language, is actually just an exceedingly complex markup language. HTML was one […]

Quite frankly, my feeling is that the primary reason why the web is not accessible or not wholly accessible to […]

Web designers that cut their teeth in the late 90’s and early 2000’s probably remember table-based layouts. This was a […]

It was 2004, and Ian Hickson had just got out of a W3C workshop organized by Adobe. The topic was how […]

The web’s history is filled to the brim with stops and starts and wrong turns. It is a technology that […]

Why is it the <img> tag instead of the <image> tag? The answer, it turns out, dates back to one of the web’s earliest browsers and one of the web’s earliest discussions.