I’ve been using xHTML for a long time, but these two articles make a very strong case for reverting back to HTML4.01. I’m not quite convinced yet, I like closing my tags dammit! There’s a neatness to it, that’s the obsessive compulsive side of me! But in reality, using WordPress and Drupal as much as I do I don’t see any benefit in moving back at this point, who has the time anyway. I’ll keep my clean code and will go straight to HTML5, when….that comes out.

The new one is :
User-agent: *
Disallow: /includes/

an example from the old one:
Disallow: /earmarks/search
Disallow: /earmarks/query.html

2400 lines of disallows, more over on Kottke’s post.

I wonder if it really alludes to transparency on their part or just a hurry from the dev’s to get the website up in time.

India’s not safe either it seems, I heard a rumor that the Hindustan Times is being run by the Times of India now, and that Murdoch is in talks with Sameer Jain, it’s shakeup time for the newspaper industry across the globe.

Newspapers are dead, long live the newspapers!

http://www.latimes.com/

via [buzzmachine.com]

Go grab them at Everaldo’s site, he’s the maintainer of the project.

An excellent point made by: Eric Karjaluoto on the value of design.

So I created my own page with feeds from a bunch of websites I read, and viola! GoaPress.com lives, I figured I’d get a domain and throw it up.

I’ll probably play with it further and rotate the feeds about as I find more sic*better sites or more relevant news. But as the page stands right now it gives me a great snapshot of all current events, news and happenings in Goa

I also threw in a bit of eye candy, Flickr snaps and YouTube video’s, they are a lot of fun for me, they take me back there. Videos are generally a little too trance-y for me, but a few gems slip in once in a while.

Take a look: GoaPress.com

First Armin Vit writes an essay asking Landmark Web Sites, Where Art Thou? Essentially he asks why no individual web designs/sites have attained any historical significance worthy of being deemed landmarks that lead the way, such as Paul Rand’s IBM Logo.

Dan Saffer posts an interesting unrelated thought on Making Stuff vs Making Stuff Up a day later. He alludes to the problem of creation (thought) and production (implementation) for a designer.

Khoi Vin picks up on both and posts Something’s Missing in Web Design . The interesting points he adds are, “the very best designers are leaving behind the work of actually doing design…” and “that Web design is really boring…”

Joshua Porter picks up on Armin’s initial post and posts a response, Do Canonical Web Designs Exist? His point being, “It’s just that canonical design on the web isn’t as glamorous as some want it to be.”

They are all great reads and the ensuing discussions are absolute fun to read.

As to timeless or landmark web designs, there are many for me, most may not exist anymore, but they did leave a mark on me and is that not the point.