Broken websites
Categorised under: Interface design, Usability & user-centered design, Web development
Jeffrey Zeldman writes a passionate and well-informed article on why 99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete. This highlights the curse of hacked HTML, and proposes some ways forward (using web standards). To quote:
Peel the skin of any major site, from Amazon to Microsoft.com, from Sony to ZDNet. Examine their tortuous non-standard markup, their proprietary ActiveX and JavaScript (often including broken detection scripts), and ill-conceived use of Cascading Style Sheets
James Robertson is the Managing Director of 