The newest complaint sweeping the web dev community is "IE8 is the new IE9". Yet unnoted is that if IE6-IE8 had the capabilities to properly consume all of HTML 4 or XHTML 1.x, then there would never have been a need for the browser manufacturers to highjack the standards process with the WhatWG.

Lots of web devs will scoff at that and are happy to proclaim the WhatWG and browser manufacturers conquering heroes for providing audio/video tags (which should be covered under the HTML 4 object tag now that the browsers have native support for audio and video ...

The Eschatonians is a blog aggregator. It collects the posts from as many commenters at The Eschaton as I can assemble and repackages them for quick browsing.

For years the site has been running on the same version of Lilina. Lilina is an aggregator written in php, which used the venerable Magpie RSS parsing library. It used a flat-file cache for the feeds and no historical data storage. Very minimalistic and relatively fast for a php-based app. The development of Lilina switched hands. The latest trunk version is pretty nice, but the developers haven't solidified the code and produced ...