Not really surprising, but Neal Stephenson has a home page on his WELL account (again, not surprising). It hasn’t been updated since last February. One of my friend‘s pet peeves is undated web documented. It certainly can be annoying. For static pages, a “lynx -head -dump” on an URL will give you the last modified date, but for dynamic pages, this understandably doesn’t work.
This actually one of the things I’m surprised by: how useless Mozilla’s page information is. It doesn’t show any of the head information (nada). Furthermore, it doesn’t show any of the linked files (style sheets, javascripts, embeds, objects, not even background images – nada). Oh, and the little information that is provided? You can’t select and copy much less do anything else with it. Hey, it’s still better than IE (have you ever tried looking at the ‘page properties’? that’ll give you a laugh), but still disappointing. Why aim low?