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Web Standards
CSS, XHTML, microformats, accessibility: the web-standards movement that won the late 2000s.
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retrospective · 2026-05-15
The Web Standards Movement 2005-2010: CSS, XHTML, Microformats, and What Won
Five years of the Web Standards Movement that finally killed table-based layouts: CSS Zen Garden, the XHTML promise that fell apart, microformats, and the path to HTML5 in 2008-2014.
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retrospective · 2026-05-10
jQuery in 2026: What Survives After React, Vue, and the Modern Web
John Resig's 2006 jQuery library shaped a decade of browser development. Twenty years later, what survives in 2026 modern stacks: querySelector, fetch, ES6 modules, and the quiet death of $.