Quirksmode is seeking to raise € 2,500 in donations

ppk is on Flattr - you can subscribe to him here: https://flattr.com/thing/325875/ppk-on-Twitter

"Therefore, if you go to the compatibility tables now, you’ll see a tasteful little sponsor bar at the bottom of every page with a well-known logo in it."

I can't see these any more so I think it fair to assume they don't.

Yup I donated too. Quirksmode is a very useful site and I'd hate to see it stop.

Here's hoping he reaches his total. I just donated a good chunk on behalf of Mogotest. I wish I could pick up the whole thing, but we're still an early-stage bootstrapped company. Regardless, I think it's important to support the ecosystem. This is our second donation to community resources (the other was to http://firebreath.org/). I wish more companies would step up and help out in general.

Caniuse mostly covers futures stuff, Quirksmode's table cover everything, provide detailed reports on partial compatibility and check extensively for specious behavior at boundaries.

http://help.dottoro.com/ is useful too though has no usable search feature (relying on Google is not enough).

CanIUse builds on top of data from eg. QuirksMode and gathers it in an easily scannable and filterable table.

I recently discovered CanIUse.com for the HTML5/CSS3 stuff. In some ways they aren't as detailed as I'd like. I wanted to see what browsers support <input type=number>, which Chrom(e|ium) supports, but FF5 doesn't. However they lump all Form Elements into one category, and tell me that FF has partial support. It would be nicer if they told me how partial, partial was!

> will cut them a check tomorrow morning.

Too late.

You're not PPK though, I think.

Also, it's a weekly rate for his consulting business, not personal income.

That's because you don't have a clue about running a business. What you get as an employee is not what it costs to employ you, and that's not what it costs to do it from your own company.

I'd rather have him not give a discount. Why not let people pay for what they use? How did we get to a state where everybody expects everything to be handed to them for free?

I bet you wouldn't.

You might start off that way, but then you'd think "Hmm, if I do an extra few weeks I can buy a nicer car / a fancy new camera / a better computer / go on an expensive holiday / save up more money in case I get too old or too sick to work", and then after a few iterations of that it would be "Hmm, if I work an extra month every year then I can afford a bigger house" a few times. And, since this is consulting income we're talking about, every now and then it would be "Whoa, it was scary not being able to find any work for six months. Just as well I had a little money saved. I'd better work extra hard for a little while to build up my reserves again".

Of course, you might be different. Some people are. But when you have the option of getting a lot more money for a modest amount of extra work, it's really hard not to do it.

A typical rule of thumb while consulting is to charge double what you do if you were employed.

When consulting you need to build up money to pay yourself for time when you're not working, but as a paid employee you'd get 'built in'. e.g. (a) 4 weeks holidays per year, (b) about 1 week illness, (c) 2 weeks(ish) publis holidays per year (d) 1 week (more?) of administration/taxes/form filling. Before you know it you can't work all 52 weeks in the year! And that implies you're working full time. Contractors often have lulls when they have no work. No work, no pay!

Advertising makes things shitter. The Louvre could probably replace the frame of the Mona Lisa with some rotating ads, but it would detract from the content. It cheapens it. PPK has spent years building his reputation through Quirksmode - heck, he's one of my most respected sources because I know he has a great sense of pride in his work.

HN people rely for a lot of their income through ads I know, but it doesn't change the feeling (I changed that work from "fact"!) that it detracts from the content. Thanks for your awesome work PPK, I'm donating now!