Helder just published about a “Wiki 2.0″. WetPaint is a full of Web 2.0 techniques wiki, and looks like interesting. I particularly don’t think that some wikis (like MediaWiki) need to have much improve, but WetPaint have some improvements, like talk pages structured as weblog comments.
I was willing to try WetPaint, when I stared with a page saying: “Go away, because your Firefox version is not welcome here”. Well, I, as root user of my machine, am solving it by upgrading my Firefox. But I, as a developer, don’t want that my client be unable to use my service, just because she has an older version of her browser.
Web stardards was, on my mind, an old issue in web development. On my mind, only old-fashioned web pages do not open in any browser. This showed that I’m probably wrong, and that web standards should be subject of Web 2.0 discussions also.
March 8, 2006 at 7:48 pm
Good thing you noted that. I’ve read in a great many places people emphasizing this need for web standards on these new web applications. Perhaps (I hope) this is one isolated case of someone who wasn’t paying much attention. I think you should drop them a line and tell them about that.
There’s something my pro-M$ dad always used to say in the earlier days of Linux when it was a pain getting your hardware supported (especially fax-modems) and we complained about the hardware manufacturers: “it’s not the modem that doesn’t support Linux. It’s Linux that doesn’t support your modem.”
There’s a big truth in there and, although web browsers should be as compatible as possible and comply to web standards, the websites themselves should push for standardization. It’s a convergent effort of compatibility from both sides.