The Cattery

The Cattery

The World of the Blog

11 February 2004
Filed under Text, The Interweb

Sometimes I get so sick of the internet I want never to see it again, but then I'm horribly drawn to it. I surf around, check email (Shift-Apple-N Syndrome will be in all the big medical journals next printing), click through the same old beaten track... And then suddenly, like opening a door into another world, I'll find a new little ring of sites, a whole festival of links to new and amazing things.

Tonight, I stumbled across Infrangible. It's a bold design... something new and different, and outside the world of suddenly-samey standards-compliancy. It's - gasp - a non-semantic, table-based layout without a DOCTYPE declaration. I haven't been near one of those in yonks. It feels gooooood. Out there.

Somewhat contradictorily, I'm excited by the Web Standards Awards...

Views from the Floor

Khoi says:

What the heck is a DOCTYPE? I learned HTML in 1997 and never looked back. Or is it forward?

Virginia says:

A DOCTYPE is the first line (usually) of an HTML document, which tells the browser what to do with the page. My DOCTYPE tells the browser that my page is coded in web standards-compliant XHTML. Without going into details, this causes some browsers to treat some of my code a little differently. If you're interested in web standards, visit http://www.zeldman.com and http://www.alistapart.com .

Krassy says:

The Wildly Sophisticated site is very impressive. Beautiful layout design, great choice of photos on each page, intuitive navigation, tight code, comfortible overall user experience...quiet perfect, really.

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