Joe Clark drops one hell of a rant about everything from web acessibility, web 2.0 and stooped conferences.
And really, the Pied Piper of Ajax, Jason Fried, is principally responsible for this mess. I’m getting a bit tired of having to remind the leader of the pack and his Opera-style fanboys that accessibility isn’t an option (add “anymore” if you wish)./.../
So, with the Mesh Conference, we’ve got these five middle-aged Toronto guys who, I presume, recently converted from IE6 to Firefox, which makes them totally up to the minute. They got the brainwave to start a conference about Web 2.0. A conference, in other words, celebrating a rampantly mediocre development trend that stands squarely at odds with everything real Web developers like me and my friends have been trying to do for the last six years.
Do you think these people even understand what I’m talking about? Nope. They are apparently incapable.
Woohooo!
I gotta respect the fellow shit-kicker, even if sometimes it's me he kicks. ;)
