*Just listen to these design characters carrying on. Man, that is something else. A, it's very funny, B, I more or less understand what they are saying, C, practically every jargon term in here will be completely opaque to everyone in fifteen years. Like, deader than guys speaking in French about pneumatic tube mail. I really dunno what to make of that situation. This is how we live now. Like that inexplicable Bourriaud thing I blogged earlier, it's really about this, somehow. It's sorta grand and tragic. Dark euphoria: that's what it is.
http://boagworld.com/design/zeldman-marcotte
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"The semantics of HTML are very limited. Well now, all of a sudden, in the last year and a half, HTML5 comes bursting out, like ready to be used and supported in browsers. There are elements of CSS3 that are in browsers. People are all over, not just standards people, people all over, including Microsoft are saying “Help us get rid of IE6.”
"We have An Event Apart speaker coming from Microsoft, who’s going to spend half an hour, asking our audience to help him get their clients off IE6. So, there’s so much going on after basically eight years in a nursing home. Years of dull, bad, nothing happening, except that everyone got up to speed and pretty much anyone who wasn’t aware of web standards and wanted to be, had those eight years to read the books, make the mistakes, and everybody knew the tricks and all that and now all of a sudden its an all new game.
"And I think also the fact that people I respected kept saying we’re in so much trouble, we’re going to lose semantics, HTML5 is a disaster, XHTML is dead, that means that people who use XHTML are fools, we’re losing the W3C, the W3C is stifling innovation, and there was so much opinion that was so wild, I thought “Okay, what do I think about this?” and a few blog posts that I had written in response didn’t seem like they were solving anything, it didn’t seem like I could go “Here’s what I think…” that it was over. There’s a lot of ferment, a lot of people who are confused, upset, so let’s figure out what’s going on and see if we can provide some wisdom..."
