5 month ago
Simon Willison : James Bennett: Why HTML - James Bennett: Why HTML. Finally, somewhere to point people when they ask why I avoid XHTML that’s a bit more up to date than Hixie’s rant from 2002.
philgyford : Why HTML - More recent arguments for why to use HTML rather than XHTML. (via Simon Willison)
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wearehugh : reddit.com: Thought experiment (On why XHTML is a bad idea) - yawn. luckily i no longer need to argue about draconian error handling. we won, you lost. get over it.
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wearehugh : Bb's RealTech | IE8: First Looks - maybe if you click "find" it'll offer to download firefox
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deusx : Jumping out of the system [dive into mark] - "Go read Gödel, Escher, Bach, then come back and argue in favor of enforcing draconian error handling everywhere."
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wearehugh : Stimulating Wordpress - "I ran into the very problem that Mark mentioned years ago and I had to poke my WordPress database option to switch back to text/html for the WordPress admin panel so I could correct Jacques invalid character."
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15 month ago
deusx : Beware of XHTML - "there is a lot more to it than you may realize, and if you're using it on your website, even if it validates, you are probably using it incorrectly."
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17 month ago
deusx : jQuery Taconite Plugin - "The jQuery Taconite Plugin allows you to easily make multiple DOM updates using the results of a single AJAX call. It processes an XML command document that contain instructions for updating the DOM."
Simon Willison : jQuery Taconite Plugin - jQuery Taconite Plugin. Lets you serialize jQuery DOM manipulation commands as an XML document for retrieval via Ajax.
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17 month ago
philgyford : Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful - Apparently definitive version of why mindlessly doing sites as XHTML is wrong. (via Dotcode)
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18 month ago
jonhicks : Particletree » Rediscovering the Button Element
deusx : Particletree » Rediscovering the Button Element - "Creating a consistent interface for your users is a constant struggle for every application designer. Building consistency on the web is especially tough because the visual rendering differences across browsers and operating systems are wildly diffe
philgyford : Particletree » Rediscovering the Button Element - Very handy alternative to Submit buttons, and I feel I should have already known this, but it appears to have problems in IE. Like most things. (via Kottke)
bmilleare : Particletree » Rediscovering the Button Element
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19 month ago
wearehugh : Burningbird » Draconian? Or Precise? - wow, it's like getting sucked into a black hole and coming out in 2002
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19 month ago
deusx : jamesv.org » Blog Archive » Semantic XHTML for Flash - "It strikes me as odd that there isn’t a standard method for treating Flash (or other types of rich media) in a similar fashion to CSS. With the exception of video assets, there really aren’t many types of content on the web these days that canâ€
jimray : Semantic XHTML for Flash - Yet another JS/HTML replacement technique.
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19 month ago
factoryjoe : Viddler.com - Chris Messina talks about hAtomic - Uploaded by cdevroe - Talking about the features of hAtomic. Tags: hatomic, chris messina
deusx : Viddler.com - Chris Messina talks about hAtomic - Uploaded by cdevroe - "Chris Messina of Citizen Agency explains a mashroom Web2Open project called hAtomic."
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20 month ago
Simon Willison : HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web - HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web. Covers similar topics to my talk, but in much more detail.
deusx : Digital Web Magazine - HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web - "HTML5 will be the future of the web, so my advice would be to pay close attention to it."
Rod Begbie : HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web - Good summary of the "competing" HTML/XHTML "standards". There's the engineering side of my brain that loves the 'you have to close every tag' tidyness of XHTML, but let's face it, the pragmatic reverse-engineered-tag-soup approach of HTML5 is going to wi [via] #
factoryjoe : Digital Web Magazine - HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web - While HTML 4.01 is formally an SGML-based document format, the only clients actually treating HTML that way are validators. Browsers, on the other hand, treat HTML documents as tag soup—they try to make sense out of, and display, even
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20 month ago
deusx : Scraping Well-Constructed Web Domains (Like Ficlets) | dev.aol.com - "Is there a Ficlets API? A Ficlets web service? No. Yet, the very construction of the pages creates an API, that can be queried and read, "scraped" if you will... But scraped with a difference."
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20 month ago
deusx : Fear of XSLT | dev.aol.com - "XSLT has always amazed me. And to see that it can be used to scrape Ficlets.com -- which indeed was intentionally designed to enable its web pages to be an API -- makes me realize that XSLT could become an incredibly valuable tool in the Web's future."
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21 month ago
wearehugh : Sam Ruby: Confirmed: Google Hates XHTML
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21 month ago
wearehugh : Bug 1500 - XHTML-sent-as-text/html is parsed as XML - delicious
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21 month ago
wearehugh : Why XHTML? - habari-dev | Google Groups - same shit, different year
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wearehugh : Sam Ruby: Xhtml5lib - ultra-liberal xhtml parsing
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24 month ago
deusx : Brad Neuberg: Coding In Paradise: ANN: HyperScope 1.1 Released! - "Hi everyone! I'm proud to announce the release of HyperScope 1.1."
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24 month ago
Simon Willison : WYMeditor - A semantic rich text editor that appears not to suck!
deusx : WYMeditor - standards-compliant XHTML editor - Home - "WYMeditor's main concept is to leave details of the document's visual layout, and to concentrate on its structure and meaning, while trying to give the user as much comfort as possible (at least as WYSIWYG editors)."
factoryjoe : WYMeditor - web-based XHTML editor - Home - WYMeditor is a web-based WYSIWYM XHTML editor. WYMeditor's main concept is to leave details of the document's visual layout, and to concentrate on its structure and meaning, while trying to give the user as much comfort as possible (at
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24 month ago
wearehugh : Appeasing the markup gods - Anne’s Weblog
deusx : Appeasing the markup gods - Anne’s Weblog - "there may be a single U 002F SOLIDUS character. This character has no effect except to appease the markup gods."
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deusx : Ma.gnolia Blog: JSON, HTML, and Microformats. Oh, My! - "These feeds are bare-bones Microformatted html documents with support for looking at our bookmarks in several different ways: as plain bookmarks in xFolk, as blog entries in hAtom, as reviews in hReview, and as all of the above combined."
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25 month ago
deusx : Transform XHTML to XHTML with XSLT - "Considering how useful it could be to transform the XHTML based web to another format or to use XHTML as an XML data store, it is surprisingly tricky to transform XHTML. Most XSLT developers need to be told the secrets of XHTML transformation in order to
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