- Hey Bill, check out Wedding Anniversary Gifts: first - tenth. Tin/Aluminum are the old-fashioned answers. Diamond is the new-fangled one. Luckily you remembered to send flowers, so you’re mostly covered.
- In One Foot in the Past..., Eric Meyer says:
That’s how I’ve felt lately. I’ve got a client where the other engineers say they’re all for cleaning up both their old code-base and their processes, but when push comes to shove, management isn’t willing to spend any time on modernizing their core code, and engineers are unwilling to think about new processes that might make it possible to work with the ten-year-old code we keep trying to patch together with duct-tape and bailing-wire.And there’s the problem. The clients are not only aware of accessibility, but borderline hostile to it. How do you overcome that kind of hurdle? We can say,
It’s your job to educate the client,
but at a certain point you have to stop singing to the pigs.
I’m starting to think I’m about done singing to the pigs in that case.
It’s not just a problem with forward movement of the web, Eric. It’s a problem with forward movement at all, and it happens in software as much (if not more) than it happens on the web. [zeldman] - Over on A List Apart: Using XHTML/CSS for an Effective Search Engine Optimization Campaign. It’s just the kind of things I’ve been trying to do all along that seem to result in a fair number of hits coming through to my site. [zeldman]
- So here’s how to do Rounded corners in CSS. Cool. If you see them appearing here on Dave’s Picks, you’ll know I’ve actually had some time to play with web-stuff again, as opposed to being busy just trying to keep my head above water.