Peter wrote a nice fairy tale, with usability as topic. For the usability-gurus among us, this is their Friday afternoon escape…

This story shows that usability doesn’t need to be perfect, but also solutions to alleviate the ‘pain’ are a nice start.

Today I launched the Dutch Geek Meet. Like Robert Nymans meetings, the Dutch version of this web developers meeting will also be free to attempt.

I have no date, location and speakers yet, so feel free to contact me if you got something interesting for me. If all of those are organized, I’ll publish more at this blog. You can also get updates via the Geek Meet Feed.

Today the W3C announched a new HTML working group.

It’s time to revisit the standard and see what we can do to meet the current community needs, and to do so effectively with commitments from browser manufacturers in a visible and open way.

Said Tim Berners-Lee, director of W3C.

Good news, HTML4.01 turns 9 (nine!) this year. I hope they have a look at WHATWGs vision on HTML5, but not too much.

Do you have some input for HTML5?

Last week I discovered PageRank splitting on several of my websites. Google sees my site as two web sites. Backlinks from sites point to the version with, and to the version without www. So the PageRank is also unique for both versions, and is lower than when I had organized it better.

From now on, I will only use the version without www to prevent this annoying effect. With a short .htaccess code I redirect people towards the good version.