For anyone with a vested business in the analog phone network i think its time to consider a new career. First there was mobile phones, now there is Skpye and VoIP not to mention wireless broadband and even fiber optics.

I thought that was enough to signal a slow death for the traditional phone line. The latest article from Wired.com suggest its even worse for our trained phone technician. Soon you can connect to the web via your power lines. This is by no means a perfect solution by the creators own admission but this could easily speed up the process of pulling out those 56k phone lines forever.

The web 2.0 phrase has really caught on and describing what it entails and where it’s boundaries are has become ever more difficult. Recently came across this post on Headrush -creating passionate users.

Basically it states that the best thing about web 2.0 is not the social or technical details of what it is but the way it has started allot of progressive thinking about the web and what it should be.

The importance of developing w3c standard compliant websites is becoming more and more popular among everyone in the industry which is great even if it is still rather slow in the uptake.

But with that now comes the need for shopping carts that display valid markup or allow you to manipulate it to display valid xhtml.

I haven’t come across many packages but our recent project http://www.easypsp.co.uk is powered by JShop; a nice ecommerce package. By default the template hasn’t valid markup or even proper css implementation(no tableless design either) but you can manipulate the templates to work with valid xhtml and I’ve been pretty impressed with there setup so far. By popular request the next release is going to have xhtml valid markup.

My question is, what do you use or recommend for w3c standard shopping carts?