The Netcraft November 2003 Web Server Survey has Apache at nearly 70% market share, and climbing.

A few shots from this year’s rally

Tim Bray writes a little on who’s asking for Rich Applications…

Every time, I get emails and incoming pointers from people saying ”You just don’t get it, the Web interfaces are so tired, we really need a richer UI paradigm.” The interesting thing is that these reactions are always–every time, without exception–from developers. Not once has an end-user type person written in saying they wished they could have a richer interface like the kind they used to have in compiled desktop apps

Flash For The Future

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Looks like Mr. Robinson shares my views on a previously-referenced Zeldman article.

QuirksMode - for all your browser quirks

Spend more time there than I’ve been able to, and report back. It looks very useful.

The Movie Cliches List, part 1

Things like… “Pedestrians in Hollywood have the world’s best reactions, so don’t worry if you have to drive down a sidewalk. Mr Pappodopolus is quite used to having his fruit cart smashed, and despite his gesticulations and curses, he always manages to get out of the way in time.”

for Business Recent Press Releases” class=”external”>Here’s what you do with all those unused Aeron chairs sitting around.

Zeldman: Coding for easier redesigns revisits some of the territory from Designing with Web Standards related to thinking structurally and how that helps later.

Note, I would have pasted a relevant quote or two, but the article itself is presented entirely in Flash, so I couldn’t select or copy any of the text. What’s that supposed to be, some sort of “Rich Application” DRM? Another fine example of what not to use Flash for. With all of the useful things that Flash is good at, why this? Sigh.

Alertbox: Nielsen’s latest Alertbox has some useful tips and research for creating company “About Us” pages.

Via Joel on Software comes word of tokens, a method of sending large files or folders of files through email. Looks like a very nice implementation, but $49.00 is the wrong price point for it to, as Joel says, “take off like wildfire.” And another thing, the Creo website bears a striking resemblance to many of the early designs of fusionary.com.