On the subject of standards compliance, I logged on to American Express’s new online account service with Firefox and was stunned to find it barely worked!  Under Firefox it demonstrates some extremely odd layout issues such as drop boxes with ill fitting text and portions of the text obscured by colored boxes. Its hard to believe that in December of 2005, a major corporation has released a keystone of their online self service system in an Internet Explorer only form – even ...

What is the only thing you can do with a computer that is more painful and less rewarding than a trip to the dentist – I suggest that its making your web pages pass CSS2/XHTML validation.  Or to requote the old stand by: “Making my CSS/HTML pass W3 validation is like wetting your pants in a dark suit, you get a warm feeling, but nobody notices” Yes, my personal homepage and a few other selected pages on my website now pass validation.  It ...