I am testing out HTML 5 for some time now and what it can do over conventional HTML 4.x.  It is pretty cool.  The way it is structured with new tags and able to play video.  Add in CSS3 and you can get a really great looking web site.

The thing about HTML 5 is that it is not new.  It has been in the works since 2007-ish, albeit that it is NOT finalized, it is further along than you would think.  The latest version of web browsers like Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and IE 8 support it…wait…IE 8!  IE 8 supports it?  Ah…that would be a NO.  Why?  Why not support it?  ALL of the other browsers do.  Microsoft’s answer is it is not finished yet.  But that never stopped them from supporting other technologies that no one ever adopted.  Is it because Google and Apple are the big proponents of HTML 5 and Microsoft is scared to come to the table?  Is it they are trying to come up with their own HTML?  What gives Microsoft?

Microsoft, the company that was on the forefront of all technologies is now holding back the web with in adequate browsers (don’t get me started on IE6 from the year 200) and not inventing and pushing the web like these other companies are doing.

Microsoft #FAIL

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I am not saying I am the perfect employee or even one who never makes mistakes.  I make my share.  But I was in a situation the other day where I am working with a client on getting hosting set up for a new web site.  I provided a document of what type of access I will need.  User account for FTP, Shell access and file modification access to certain directories and read only access to others.  I also gave examples of .conf files for apache of what I will need.

I get an email back from the hosting company and they provide me all the info I need.  IP, Username and Password, file locations etc.  Wow.  Everything seems like it will work great.  Well, that was last Friday.  It was not until Monday when I was able to fully access the web site.  First FTP did not work.  SSH did not work either.  HTTP did not work as well.  Once they got FTP and SSH to work the document root was not set up correctly.  Once they figured that out, I installed my software and database did some testing and found out my .htaccess file is not working.  AllowOverride was not enabled (it was in my doc I sent).

So, in an effort to fix that they enabled Authentication on the site and I could not even view it.  Argh.  Finally done.  But now we need to set up production.

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