ESPN
What were the primary factors behind your decision to move away from table-based layout?

The number one factor was forward compatibility, a term I first heard used by Jeffrey Zeldman. For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser. Sure, we had to craft our content so that it presented itself well in many different brands and flavors of browsers, but it never went further than browsers.

Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat. Through a dizzying array of table tricks, transparent spacer images, and JavaScript hacks, we found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood. Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities. Do we want to send a 100KB index page full of Flash, images, and tables to a small wireless device or would we rather send them our top story, our top headlines, and essential navigation to get through our site? By separating our content pieces in a logical way rather than a graphical way, we are free to restyle this content for any device which supports open standards.

http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/espn-interview/01/
- posted by Stormwild @ 2/07/2004 03:10:00 PM

 
PocketASP, Flash on PocketPC, IE URL-handling

http://builder.com.com/5100-6373-5111978.html?tag=e601

http://builder.com.com/5100-6371-5061661.html?tag=e601

http://builder.com.com/5100-6373-5152488.html?tag=e601


- posted by Stormwild @ 2/06/2004 01:37:00 PM

 
Java RMI

http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/rmi/RMI.html#IntroRMI
- posted by Stormwild @ 1/19/2004 01:54:00 PM

 
Macromedia Director MX 2004

http://www.macromedia.com/software/director/productinfo/features/brz_tour/
- posted by Stormwild @ 1/06/2004 02:19:00 PM

 
Choosing between MySQL and SQL Server

http://builder.com.com/5100-6388-1054385.html

Performance of MySQL

http://builder.com.com/5100-6388-1058872.html?tag=e601
- posted by Stormwild @ 1/06/2004 02:14:00 PM

 
Links

http://www.developer.com/

http://www.webdeveloper.com/

http://java.sun.com/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/

http://www.wdvl.com/

http://developer.apple.com/

http://www.devshed.com/

http://www.google.com/search?q=developer&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=0&sa=N
- posted by Stormwild @ 1/02/2004 07:07:00 PM

 
Technology Resources for Developers and Designers
A collection of resources and meanderings into the world of art, science and technology.
- posted by Stormwild @ 1/02/2004 06:42:00 PM