A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

No. 263

Authors: W:   waferbaby

  waferbaby

Waferbaby is a terrible web monster, currently held in check as a software engineer at Yahoo! in Sydney. He’s also a technical editor for ALA, and needs a good clean.

Articles By This Author

Slash Forward (Some URLs are Better Than Others)

Issue 138February 22, 2002

Some URLs are better than others: easier for visitors to remember, easier for designers and developers when it comes time to change the technology that drives the site. Waferbaby neatly and briefly considers the effect of web addresses on usability, design, and ease of maintenance and technological transition.

Omniweb and Standards

Issue 131December 28, 2001

Omniweb, a promising new browser for Mac OS X, has been much praised for its elegant interface and beautiful antialiasing of text. But how does it fare with web standards like CSS and the DOM? To find out, Waferbaby puts newly released version 4.1b1 through the paces.