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(For those who don’t know, Trent Reznor is an industrial rock musician and I’m pretty sure he is no porn star).

As announced by the Mozilla team some time ago, June 17 is Firefox download day. Mozilla wants to set a “downloads per day” world record (with Firefox 3.0).

Because I’d signed up for a reminder, today I received the following e-mail:

Today you’ll make history with Firefox

Are you ready to make history? Are you ready to set a World Record? Today is Download Day. To become part of the official Guinness World Record you must download Firefox 3 by 17:00 UTC on June 18, 2008, or roughly 24 hours from now.

I then go ahead and click the “download Firefox 3″-link which takes me to a page that says

HTTP/1.1 Service Unavailable

Mkaaay. The server is probably too busy, me thinks. I wait a few moments before refreshing the page.

It works! But…I’m now looking at a page telling me to download Firefox version 2.0.0.14.

Haha! Guess they forgot a tiny detail. Wonder if they’ll beat the current record…

During a workshop on accessibility and WAI yesterday, the issue of proper use of HTML headings came up.

Lots of sites fall short when it comes to using HTML headings (and other elements) properly, something that can affect accessibility, search engine ranking, as well as code maintenance [not to forget future re-use on the grand Semantic Web].

How - and where - to properly use the elements might not always be that clear, and some of the questions raised during the discussion can be rephrased as:

• Do all web sites/documents have a clearly defined heading?
• Do all documents have to specify a H1?
  
• Is it really OK to put the logo inside H1?

What follows is my 2 cents on the subject.

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Whether or not Firefox is your favorite browser:

Set a Guinness World Record
Enjoy a Better Web

I’ve already tried the Firefox 3.0 beta (now a release candidate) for a while and can confirm that it is a faster and less consuming browser, so help rid the world of MSIE.

In a recent article, IAllenkelhet.no (Norwegian) claims that a survey conducted last year revealed that while 90% of us expect web developers to have expert knowledge about HTML, a mere 35% of the developers actually do. Even fewer know much about WAI or WCAG.

Unfortunately, this is probably very close to the truth.

I believe that it might be due to the fact that many developers are highly trained and skilled professionals, for example computer scientists, software engineers, etc. Having a degree, they are expected to just “know” such a simple thing as HTML.

Sure, most probably understand the concept of opening and closing tags (although many fall short), but I doubt the majority has ever looked up the HTML spec. at W3.org, or know how to use the elements specified by the standard. Probably because HTML is considered too simple — i.e. not that interesting.

But if you aren’t interested in learning about how to use the available tools, you shouldn’t be working with them.

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When you — or your bank, whichever fits best — own a house with a yard, you sometimes find yourself doing stuff in/to/with it. This year, we’ll for example put up a new fence, to keep our new puppy from running into the street.

Since we also need some other stuff for the house, I figured that I’d check what’s the best place to start … from the comfort of my couch, obviously.

First, I visited sites like Byggmakker.no and Byggeriet.no. Then I stopped by Monter.no…

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My most recent attempt at Explaining Topic Maps.