This site is being developed with new web technology. I hesitate to say “web 2.0” because not many people know what that really is. I’m not sure I do.
What we do know is this: The so-called browser wars between Microsoft and Netscape some ten years ago, were not just about free internet access software - they were about the present and future of web standards. Surfice it to say that Microsoft only won one round. More egalitarian and technically savvy people organized global standards bodies to ward off reliance on proprietary browser technology that left people and sites open to attack, viruses and limited the amount of innovation that could be accomplished through the web.
Today the World Wide Web standards body (W3C.org) (you don’t need to go there unless you are a real geek) - is made up of a wide board of scientists, technologists and companies including MS - and have agreed on a path to a set of reasonable standards. These will become manifested as new versions of browsers emerge. Firefox was a big break for open standards, and Apple’s Safari scores 100% on the so-called Acid Test 3.
This is important to everyone. It means that websites that conform to the new standards will be able to be viewed on everyone’s (modern) computer.
I’m happy to say that this site (at least I think) is fully compliant with the next generation of standards, called XHTML and CSS2.x. You should be able to view it in Safari 2+, Firefox 2+ and Internet Explorer 7+. Did you know that there are about 30-40 web browsers? See how your site stacks up here.