From Zeldman: “[Supporting 4.x and older browsers] does not mean the site must look and work the same way in old browsers as it does in new ones. The cost of bandwidth-intensive, invalid markup, and of detection scripts that continually run afoul of their target, is too high. Such methods waste site owners’ money in a futile effort to keep up with ever-changing browser versions. More importantly, they hurt web users, forcing everyone to download bandwidth-busting heaps of inaccessible junk markup and proprietary code forks so that an ever-shrinking minority of old browser users can have the exact same experience as the majority. (Meanwhile, this same junk code locks out screen reader and wireless users, and often denies access to the physically impaired as well.)”

One of the best-written overall paragraphs about standards-compliant code I've run across. I'm saving this one for future reference.

Another great piece of writing comes from Robin Williams' Web Design Workshop site. She's put together a few pages for clients of web design teams - and I think it would work equally well for internal or external clients to help them to understand the process. Very clear — and neccessary!

FontHaus has an online magazine called X-Height, did you know? Some interesting stuff there.

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