“Standards were falling everywhere. They usually do.”
Seriously, A List Apart? Two Ruby on Rails tutorials in this issue? (Oh, Web 2.0. Is nothing sacred to you?) There are, on my last count, approximately 42 infinities of Rails tutorials on the Internet. You can tell Ruby on Rails is easy to use because there are so many tutorials and because it generates code for you automatically—less typing! So ALA decided to publish two new tutorials. What happened to the good old days when it wasn’t involved in the hip new stuff? A couple of issues ago it was the brouhaha over IE 8’s rendering engine switching. Back in the old days, ALA single-hanedly launched CSS techniques. Sliding doors, sprites, and Suckerfish. Doing Ruby on Rails is like New York Times doing a nine-page investigation of Ruby on Rails.