OK, I was mildly interested in the 5k Web Design contest when it was announced, but now that I’ve seen the finalists, I’m very impressed. People have done some really, really cool things within the 5k constraint.
Not even the Justice Department can teach an old dog new tricks.
I hate getting HTML mail, so I’m not heartened by RadicalMail’s development of an applet that can be embedded in an email message to stream audio and video to the luckless person who opens one of their messages. How long will it be before busy people just start filtering out every email message that doesn’t come from someone that’s already in their address book?
The people at the Web Standards Project are soldiering on in their fight to get Microsoft to support basic W3C standards. Netscape is at least taking a stab at providing a standards compliant browser in Mozilla … Microsoft seems to be unwilling to make the same commitment.
If you’re interested in custom tag libraries for Java Server Pages, you may want to check out the Taglibs project, which has just been initiated as part of the Apache Jakarta project.
My current big project is mastering Java, so you can expect more Java links around here until I move on to the next big project.