Been a bumper crop of lunacy across the interweb this week.
About the web,we have Zeldman who was one of the leading lights in working to have browser makers support current and emerging code and display standards. At the time circa 1999,Microsoft’s Internet Explorer had serious problems requiring designers to use more code in their web sites just to get around non standard markup.
This week Zeldman has written that coddling Microsoft is okay for doing the same thing they did then.
sigh….GET a fucking clue!!! Microsoft will never build a standards compliant browser.
In other MS News,another EU deadline,another press release saying that Microsoft will embrace Open Standards. What is this #4?
see get a clue above
In politics we have Obama running the ChangeTrain,putting a serious kink into the bullshit from Hillary in supposing that we will only vote for a professional politician. See 7+years of the Shrub,for why this isn’t gonna happen.
Also being dragged to the platform and pushed onto the ChangeTrain is Larry Lessig. I admire and respect Larry. Hell I was one of the first geeks to send him money to fight Eldred in front of the Supreme Court. I use the Creative Commons Licensing for my ravings out here. Despite the defects in it. But Larry is really in the wrong weight class here.
Politicians either have or develop ethical ‘flexibility’which is not a hallmark of the academic.
There is more weird shit going on,but the tech pundits are having a meltdown over Facebook loosing its Happy Shine That sucks cause it means that they will be looking for their friends elsewhere.