Yesterday marked the ten-year milestone for Jeffrey Zeldman’s zeldman.com (if I’m not mixing my spacio-temporal metaphors) – a fine achievement.

It’s six or seven years since I started noting what Mr Zeldman had to say and his message of web standardisation started to influence my day-to-day work. His combination of well articulated argument, practical advice and the ability to aggregate important developments from far and wide has had a strong influence on the world of web development.

While it would be exaggeration to suggest that without Jeffery Zeldman‘s persuasion I’d still be firmly planted in the <table> and spacer GIF school of mark-up, it was he who gave me the early “heads-up” and was the catalyst for change.

Congratulations!

[It should be noted that, in spite of that, an early and long-standing requirement that we support Netscape 3 has meant it’s taken just as long to purge the pre-standards mark-up from some of the products with which I’m involved. Ahem.]