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"I personally wrote *all* those mails myself."

Coming from the guy (girl?!) whose .sig used to be "If God didn't want us fucking livestock, why did he make them so sexy?", I can believe that! Especially the one about horses ;)

While your analysis of the e-mail is astute, I think you missed Zeldman's larger point, that this e-mail is just one piece of evidence in growing frustration amongst rank-and-file web developers with the W3C. Other developers have agreed.

I used to be a member of some W3C mailing lists, but got frustrated by the lack of momentum. Most of the e-mails were deflected as, "someone has already proposed that, read the archives!" or "that is not implementable." Constrast that to WHATWG, where my comment on a spec not granted me a reply from that spec's author, but also gave me a bit of enlightenment into the process.

I was a flag carrier, a proselytizer. Now I just read mozillazine and the Opera blog to see what's coming. It does seem to me that lately all the W3C is good at moving on is publishing standards other people wrote.

Is that an allusion to this? (see the board).

Regarding color: Try a little Color Theory and when you want to make a color scheme that works, go to the Color scheme generator.

Apart from that, anything on the "Resources" section of my links page will help you out.

Ok. I'm sorry I jumped into this with an attitude. You seem to have thought this out well.

Although your statements about using columns in particular are true for CSS, I think you're selling the standard short. Check this out:

This is my site
This is the exact same markup, when passed through a different stylesheet

Both of those use the same markup. One is ~800px wide, the other 320px wide. This is a demo I'm preparing for a tutorial on some CSS techniques. The title images (Rants & Articles, News, and Shout) are actually the same, just cropped and repositioned with CSS. The change in layout is rather dramatic, particularly where the floating frames are concerned. This is all standard, cross-browser compliant CSS. I didn't add extraneous divs to achieve the second layout, just structured my document correctly from the start.

There are still a few quirks (namely, the empty space at the bottom) which is why I haven't published this on the site yet.

Ok. I'm sorry I jumped into this with an attitude. You seem to have thought this out well.

Although your statements about using columns in particular are true for CSS, I think you're selling the standard short. Check this out:

This is my site
This is the exact same markup, when passed through a different stylesheet

Both of those use the same markup. One is ~800px wide, the other 320px wide. This is a demo I'm preparing for a tutorial on some CSS techniques. The title images (Rants & Articles, News, and Shout) are actually the same, just cropped and repositioned with CSS. The change in layout is rather dramatic, particularly where the floating frames are concerned. This is all standard, cross-browser compliant CSS. I didn't add extraneous divs to achieve the second layout, just structured my document correctly from the start.

There are still a few quirks (namely, the empty space at the bottom) which is why I haven't published this on the site yet.

Unfortunately, very few sites out there that work in all browsers correctly are compliant.

Mine (Overcaffeinated) is. And it displays the same in everything from Firebird to Explorer to Safari to Konqueror to PDA browsers (no 4.x browsers supported).

It's not about avoiding Explorer, just its glitches. You can do wonders with CSS, and tweak it to work well with most browsers without using hacks. It takes some more time, but it's doable. and in the long run, it pays to have compliant code. Much easier to modify.

The other way is to learn the hacks (there are lots) that hide content from non-IE browsers or target specific versions. Take a look at Zeldman's css and you'll see quite a few of those. That ensures his site looks the same if you look at it with practically anything. I don't find that to be so maintainable, though (when you update your CSS you have to consider all repeated content that is there to be shown for specific browsers) so I go another way: Code your site around glitches. If a layout method produces iffy results in two browsers, don't use it. Try to be as specific as possible in your div alignment (without resorting to absolute positioning). Always specify all margins of an object. So on. It's quite fun, really =)

By the way, my site design was influenced by Zeldman's. I love his work.

Most of the comic strips I read this days are net-comics

You could give mine a try =)

They don't mention anything about using visuals similar to Tron. I don't think it could be called a "Tron Spoof" otherwise. There have been a few series focused on the electronic world (there was "Reboot" and I think "Digimon" had something like that?). What makes Tron be Tron is the look&feel, not only the premise.

I mentioned this when the Tron 2.0 demo was released, but I made a series of Tron strips in my webcomic a while ago. If you want to see them, these are the links:
Strip 1
Strip 2
Strip 3
Strip 4

They don't mention anything about using visuals similar to Tron. I don't think it could be called a "Tron Spoof" otherwise. There have been a few series focused on the electronic world (there was "Reboot" and I think "Digimon" had something like that?). What makes Tron be Tron is the look&feel, not only the premise.

I mentioned this when the Tron 2.0 demo was released, but I made a series of Tron strips in my webcomic a while ago. If you want to see them, these are the links:
Strip 1
Strip 2
Strip 3
Strip 4

They don't mention anything about using visuals similar to Tron. I don't think it could be called a "Tron Spoof" otherwise. There have been a few series focused on the electronic world (there was "Reboot" and I think "Digimon" had something like that?). What makes Tron be Tron is the look&feel, not only the premise.

I mentioned this when the Tron 2.0 demo was released, but I made a series of Tron strips in my webcomic a while ago. If you want to see them, these are the links:
Strip 1
Strip 2
Strip 3
Strip 4

They don't mention anything about using visuals similar to Tron. I don't think it could be called a "Tron Spoof" otherwise. There have been a few series focused on the electronic world (there was "Reboot" and I think "Digimon" had something like that?). What makes Tron be Tron is the look&feel, not only the premise.

I mentioned this when the Tron 2.0 demo was released, but I made a series of Tron strips in my webcomic a while ago. If you want to see them, these are the links:
Strip 1
Strip 2
Strip 3
Strip 4

I just thought I'd drop this by: I made a series of 4 Tron cartoons in my webcomic, Overcaffeinated. These are the links:

Strip 1
Strip 2
Strip 3
Strip 4

I've been expecting this game for a while now. =)

I just thought I'd drop this by: I made a series of 4 Tron cartoons in my webcomic, Overcaffeinated. These are the links:

Strip 1
Strip 2
Strip 3
Strip 4

I've been expecting this game for a while now. =)

I just thought I'd drop this by: I made a series of 4 Tron cartoons in my webcomic, Overcaffeinated. These are the links:

Strip 1
Strip 2
Strip 3
Strip 4

I've been expecting this game for a while now. =)

I just thought I'd drop this by: I made a series of 4 Tron cartoons in my webcomic, Overcaffeinated. These are the links:

Strip 1
Strip 2
Strip 3
Strip 4

I've been expecting this game for a while now. =)

Well, it seems this will finally be not-offtopic, so I'd like to plug my own geeky webcomic, Overcaffeinated. Take a look, hope you like it -- (btw, I made this same post a long while ago, but I think it's buried in the second or third page of this story's comments due to the DB problems, so sorry for replying to your comment) =)

Finally it's not offtopic for me to plug my webcomic! check it out at:
Overcaffeinated. Thanks =)

Ahhh... a kindred spirit. See What I think of the 17" powerbook (I do like the other models, though.