I have a web stan­dards blog. I haven’t had time to give it much love lately. I’m think­ing of killing it off, merg­ing the arti­cles there with the archives of this blog, and redi­rect­ing requests the old domain to this one.

There’s a few rea­sons for this (which I actu­ally explain over there: Time to retire). When I started it, halfway through 2005, it was because I was very involved in the local Web Stan­dards Group and as I was being aggre­gated by both Ful­lasa­goog and MXNA, web stan­dards and acces­si­bil­ity and CSS seemed off-topic for this blog. There was quite a bit of hos­til­ity towards web stan­dards in the old-school coders com­mu­nity. I was almost embar­rassed about talk­ing about those kinds of issues here.

Since then though, that’s changed a lot. There’s no longer a ques­tion of “are CSS lay­outs bet­ter than table lay­outs”, and for the most part, there’s no longer any doubt among the gen­eral web devel­op­ment com­mu­nity that web stan­dards are the way to go and that acces­si­bil­ity is a good thing for every­one. And blog­ging about the odd web stan­dards issue (because there’s fewer of of them now any­way) does not seem like some kind of faux pas anymore.

So over to you. Do you think I’m doing the right thing? Do you object to the occa­sional post about web stan­dards, usabil­ity, acces­si­bil­ity and the like, which may not tie directly into Cold­Fu­sion? Does talk of web stan­dards send you into a silent (or not so silent) rage? Leave a com­ment and let me know!