Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

We at The Web Standards Project turned everything on its head. We said browsers should support the same standards instead of competing to invent new tags and scripting languages. We said designers, developers, and content folks should create one site that was accessible to everyone.

It's not about HTML 5 vs Flash. They're mutually beneficial. The more important question is the freedom of choice on the web.

The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.

Many thought it was a fool's errand - that the browser companies were never going to listen to us. Others argued that, 'Users don't care if you use Web standards.' Well, of course they don't. They just know that your site works better.

Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities.

Technically, web browsers can control what users see, and sites using Javascript can overwrite anything coming from the original authors. Browsers heavily utilize Javascript to create an interactive Internet; sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Gmail could be crippled without it.

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

We're actually helping advance HTML5 in some very concrete ways, such as Edge, which is in beta.

We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood.

Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat.

Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file.

People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out ecommerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications. Think of each website as an application, and every single click, every single interaction with that site, is an opportunity to be on the very latest version of that application.

I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done.

Flash and HTML have co-existed, and they're going to continue to co-exist.

The productivity and expressiveness of Flash remain advantages for the Web community even as HTML advances.

Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.

Validation is easy - you run your site through a validator, and it's either valid or it isn't. The rest of the stuff, such as whether my logo or the biggest headline should be the h1 in my HTML, isn't so easy and is subject to interpretation.

We want to let you use a Mac, or Windows PC, or iPad, or Android, without having to think about any of the technical details.

At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide.

Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.

Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow.

The Internet didn't become usable until Netscape because that gave the average person a user interface that was intuitive, simple, friendly - this made it accessible.

We fully recognized that our customers have a variety of devices. They're carrying all sorts of things. And we want to bring our world-class apps to those devices.

I'm just loving BlueGriffon Editor! XML, HTML5, CSS, ARIA, SVGEdit all built in.

Betting completely on HTML5 is one of the, if not THE biggest strategic mistake we've made.