It’s interesting to think not just how far the web has moved on and the changes in authoring there’ve been but also the uses of the web.
4 years ago, it strikes me Everyman having his CV online would be a novelty (hense the tempation for splash screens, maybe). Maybe that’s why rules you would have applied to printed media were ignored or discarded when designing a web version (every piece of CV advice I’ve ever been given has featured “Don’t include a title coverpage”, for instance).

Now, though, as well as having a CV online being pretty normal, I can’t help feeling that XHTML + CSS may actually be as good or better a choice for writing and presenting one than traditional tools like Word.
In the same way as Eric Meyer’s S5 outdoes Powerpoint through its use of CSS and degradation into logical text, HTML+CSS as a primary document format is tempting for its amply powerful presentation and also ‘usefulness’ (link an online CV into an online portfolio using XML, perhaps? Or even just using clickable hyperlinks on the web and expanding them into readable text using ::after and attribute selectors is a massive presentational benefit).

Interesting (and nostalgic..) read, thanks. It certainly set my mind ticking over far too fast for this time of night…