Feb 4
ToddConference 2010, AEA, AEA 2010, AEA Boston, An Event Apart, Andy Clarke, Bruce Lawson, Dan Cederholm, Eric Meyer, Ethan Marcotte, Jared Spool, Jason Santa Maria, Jeffrey Zeldman, Jeremy Keith
AEA Boston 2010
It is my mission, next year, to make An Event Apart Boston 2010. It’s the shot in the arm that I need I think to get my focus back on what I want and what I have my eye on. A job, full-time, in web design & development. 2008’s AEA gave me the shot in the arm I needed. It fired up something that had been dormant in me for awhile.
Personal issues aside, An Event Apart gave me what I needed in 2008, a much-needed boost of creativity. I need to attend and recharge again. I think it’s pretty clear in my opinion that is something that needs to be done. I met some of the nicest people and some of the people I have followed for years. Read their books, visited their web sites, watched videos of their presentations. Learned something from them, gathered important information in the field I was concentrating in making a career out of.
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Feb 4
ToddArticle, Design, Discussion, Programming, Web Anne van Kesteren, Bruce Lawson, CSS, DOCTYPE, Eric Meyer, HTML, HTML 4.01, HTML5, Jeffrey Zeldman, MIME, MIME Types, Molly Holzschlag, XHTML, XHTML Strict, XHTML Strict 1.0
So before I almost hung it up for the evening, I was rooting around the internet for the solution I was looking for. What MIME type do I use, that is “correct” with HTML5?
I found this article by Molly and as I was reading it, thinking I was finding my solution, I saw this link from a comment by Anne, to this page at Anne’s site and then, thinking back to my previous post I began to (and still am) think(ing), “What is going on here?”
I like the look of HTML5, I like the feel of it and it’s like that car you test drive, that you know you fit in good and want, but you’re not sure how the payment schedule is going to hit your wallet. The same with me and HTML5. If I decide to go with it, code with it, and develop with it, will I regret it and will I be able to achieve what I want with HTML5, without any regrets or incidents where I have to fall back on HTML4.01 or XHTML Strict 1.0?
I’ve experimented with HTML5. I’ve played with the beautifully hand-crafted tags, read the articles from my friends Jeffrey and Bruce. Those throw me for a loop. XHTML2 seems to be a dead issue, I know I said I’d “sit back and watch the debate” and see what happens. So what does one do?
Do I use HTML5? Another fellow I met awhile back went with HTML5, it seems to have worked out fine. It works? It doesn’t work? It’s good, it’s bad.
“Good grief” is right!
What’s a developer to do?
I’m not sure which direction I am headed, but I will offer this advice. Serve up your HTML or XHTML pages properly. I haven’t in the past and still are not now. I think it might be time for me to fall back to HTML 4.01 or march forward like Stonewall Jackson and go with HTML5. What are you going with and why?
Feb 4
ToddArticle, Web Bruce Lawson, IE6
A great article, superbly written by Bruce Lawson, check it out, read it through and make the argument for or against. I think the majority will be with Bruce on this one, I know I am. Finely written Bruce!
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