Interview with Opera's Bruce Lawson

December 10, 2008 · by EspenAO

ZDNet interviews Opera Evangelist Bruce Lawson and asks: "Will 2008 prove the year the Web grew up?"

We sure hope so. The article is a great read for anyone with an interest in learning more about open standards, HTML 5 specification and the future of the Web — check out the full article.

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AOTEAROAnz10. December 2008, 10:58:40
Done
Year the Web Grew Up
Chas410. December 2008, 17:21:01
Great article

I am glad to see IE 8 going towards web standards
_deXter_11. December 2008, 18:44:14
This may be the year the web grew up, but when are people going to wake up?

We need more articles like these which explains the importance web standards and how to code sites the proper way.

How about a blacklist of the most common offending sites and programs, so that we can boycott them or pester the devs pull up their socks?

It'd be cool if Opera and other browsers implement some sort of an automatic standards validation feature wherein the adherence level of the site you're visiting is displayed in the status. Something to the tune of 'The site you're trying to view doesn't respect web standards. Click here to know more' - upon which, the user is led to a page explaining in brief the importance of standards and what he/she should do (complain to the webmaster, etc).
Chas411. December 2008, 18:57:28
_deXter_ interestiong idea, there are a few sites out there right now:

http://my.opera.com/community/openweb/ Is the one Opera runs

http://www.webstandards.org/
http://www.w3.org/
ehoppe12. December 2008, 12:56:10
Great work, Bruce!
leirom15. December 2008, 08:36:14
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