standards

Chinese Standards in Hong Kong

January 24, 2009 Observation

Today my mother showed me this free Chinese New Year poster (Fai Chun, Spring Couplets) she saw in a local newspaper (Apple Daily, Jan. 23, 2009). Even though my Chinese is not that good, I too notice the mistake in the poster, which had been distributed throughout Hong Kong. Are the standards of our young [...]

Microsoft’s Ballmer considers using WebKit within IE

November 10, 2008 Opinion

Recently during a developer conference in Sydney Australia, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the idea of using WebKit as the rendering engine within its web browser was “interesting” and added “we may look at that.” I hope this is true, but one must always take anything Ballmer says with a grain of salt. He often [...]

Coding Standards

October 14, 2008 Advice

Many of you who knows me, knows that I am a strong proponent of standards (W3C) when comes to web development. I will not go into what W3C is, because I had wrote a post here almost 4 years ago called, Compatibility. Since then Microsoft has publicly acknowledge its mistake of trying to impose its own way [...]

‘IE8 compatible’ – the cure for web standards headache?

May 2, 2007 Opinion

Microsoft is reported to be seeking public opinions on IE8′s future web Standards (W3C) compatibility. I think it is a good thing that Microsoft is finally admitting the fact that all previous versions of IE are not web Standards (W3C) compliant. Note that IE7 is on the road to the right direction, but it is [...]

Putting All Your Apples in One Basket

November 20, 2006 Opinion

I am sure many of you had heard of the saying or advise, “don’t put all your apples in one basket”. Meaning you should not focus all your efforts with one idea or a single solution. As for applying this principal to software and technology, I had been advising friends and clients for as long [...]

Another Attempt from Microsoft

October 14, 2006 Opinion

Another attempt for Microsoft to further break the web sites around the world. Before you start to call me an Apple bigot and start to bombard my Inbox with hate mail, please take the time and read my full article before posting any comments. That’s because as always I totally welcome comments from all my [...]

The IE7 Myth – is Microsoft shifting blame?

August 23, 2006 Opinion

The article written by Steven Wittens infuriated me so much that I decided to Blog about the subject also. Please don’t get me wrong, I am not angry with what Steven had wrote. To the contrary, I totally agree with Steve in terms of Microsoft placing blame on the developers. Sending out emails like these [...]

U.S. Copyright Office contradicting the US eGovernment Act of 2002

August 26, 2005 Opinion

Another example of IT department taking the easy way out. With so many examples of IT departments abandoning the “right” way to favor the easy route, I am not surprise to see so many non-Standards (W3C) web sites out there. read more…

Compatibility

October 31, 2004 Advice

It has been just over a year (1 year plus 1 day) since I modified my whole web site to be “World Wide Web Consortium” (a.k.a. W3C) compliant. For those of you who do not know what W3C is, you can read all about it at their web site. Here is a paragraph from the [...]