Michael Zajac’s Radio Weblog

2002-02-21 THU

By the way, I do wish that Zeldman would take up Dave’s offer. Jeffrey Zeldman and Dave Winer are two of the biggest influences on my practice. I’d love to see what happens when they get their stuff together. 2:45:11 PM

Secondly, Dave writes that Zeldman’s “strategy is to increase our reliance on Microsoft.”

I don’t get it.

Zeldman uses Pagespinner and other software on a Mac to edit his web site which is hosted by Apache on BSD Unix. Does he mean that Zeldman is authoring strictly for the web browser, and not supporting rss syndication and xml-rpc interop?

Maybe it’s a reference to Patrick Cooney’s ALA article on web services, which mentions Sun, Microsoft, HP and IBM, but ignores UserLand’s much simpler and easier (and more useful, for the likes of us independent designers) XML-RPC. 2:29:12 PM

I wonder if Dave should have waited until after coffee before writing his morning notes. I’m completely confused by them.

First, Dave didn’t get the results he expected in his survey about Dogma 2000 vs CSS. From his comments I infer that he equates “CSS” with “[a weblog] that used all the latest and greatest technology but had nothing to say.”

Perhaps by “CSS” he means “the dogmatic zealots who insist all web sites use table-free layout today.”

I think D2K is a great way to just get our stuff out. I haven’t done much weblogging, despite relying on Manila a lot over the last couple of years, and I am giving it a shot. And I think intelligent application of CSS supports D2K. By taking presentation out of the writing process, CSS and Manila or Radio will help me make a nice-looking sites while still writing the D2K way.

I voted “I don't have to choose for some reason, or I don't choose to choose, at this time,” but I really meant I choose both. 2:19:36 PM

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