[WEB4LIB] 99.9% of web sites obsolete?

[Shirl Kennedy]

Speaking of posting guidelines...

I don't think it's kosher to post the full text of copyrighted documents
without obtaining the permission of the copyright holder.

Shirl Kennedy
IP Nerd
http://home.tampabay.rr.com/hooboy/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Paul Taylor
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 7:12 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] 99.9% of web sites obsolete?
>
>
> Dredged from Slashdot--an excerpt from "Forward Compatability:
> Designing and
> Building with Standards"
>
> Here's the URL:
> http://www.digital-web.com/features/feature_2002-09.shtml
>
>
> And here's the text:
>
> 99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete
>
> An excerpt from Forward Compatibility: Designing & Building With Standards
> By Jeffrey Zeldman
>
> An equal opportunity disease afflicts nearly every site now on
> the Web, from
> the humblest personal homepages to the multi-million-dollar sites of
> corporate giants. Cunning and insidious, the disease goes largely
> unrecognized because it is based on industry norms. Though their
> owners and
> managers may not know it yet, 99.9% of all websites are obsolete.

-----snip-----

> Excerpted from Forward Compatibility: Designing & Building With
> Standards by
> Jeffrey Zeldman, to be published by New Riders in early 2003. Copyright ©
> 2002-2003 by New Riders and Jeffrey Zeldman. Used by permission of New
> Riders.


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