The latest edition of Digital Web Magazine has an interview with Steven Champeon and Shirley Kaiser of the Web Standards Project (WaSP). It also has an excerpt from Forward Compatibility: Designing & Building With Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman which is scheduled to be released in early 2003. The piece is entitled “99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete.” In the article he explains how this is due to the legacy markup used to make web pages usable in ancient browsers. Hacks upon hacks are often used to fix browser bugs and inconsistencies. It’s all about that elusive “backwards compatibility” that corporate executives so often ask for but don’t understand. As usual Jeff makes some great points that don’t attempt to sugar coat things like some people do. Let’s just hope that my sites stay a part of that other 0.1%.