Finally catching up on the weekend papers...

Years after its inception, I am still tickled each week by the entire concept of the Sunday Telegraph's "Culture Vulture", whereby the weeks' cinema and theatre openings are cross-referenced with their press reviews. Each review is summarised by our intrepid avian correspondant as "Great Carrion" (jubilant vulture leaps into the air, wings spread wide) "On The Turn..." (vulture stands looking bored) or "Rotten" (on its back with legs in the air).

So why am I rabbiting on about it? This week, The Sweetest Thing managed the rare infamy signalled by a full row of "Rotten".

Well, it amused me. The Vulture, that is, not the film, because I haven't seen it.

Damn.

I've already written some stuff about web standards and browser compatibility. I'm part way through writing another rant. But then Jeffrey Zeldman goes and does it all better. Still, that's why he gets paid for it, I suppose.

Do you really want....

...Microsoft to control how 95% of the world sees the world wide web?

There have been times when I disagreed strongly with Joel Spolsky, but this time he's
spot on.

Thanks to green_amber at anonymousclaire for the pointer.

[edit: that article was written two years ago, so it's not exactly current, but I'd not seen it before. As a postscript, remember that, in the last 12 months, Microsoft has tried to lock non-IE, non-Netscape4 web browsers out of passport TWICE]