Monthly Archives: November 2008

Cappuccino

Ok, there isn’t a lot to say on this post since I don’t know a huge amount about it. However, take a look at Cappuccino a new web application framework, one that abstracts things so much that you no longer need to write XHTML or CSS (not 100% sure that that’s such a  great thing [...]

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Accessibility and Popup Links

Ok, I’m sure this has probably been posted about elsewhere, but I’m starting to think that some of the guidelines and XHTML specs shouldn’t be treated as strict rules.
For example, I seem to get this a lot, you build a website using a Strict XHTML doctype and then clients start to ask you to put [...]

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How to use the HTML address tag?

Right, can anyone help me out here?
I make a lot of websites, and I know HTML 4 & XHTML pretty damn well, but I can’t fathom the W3C definition of the <address> tag.
I quote:
The <address> tag defines contact information for a document or a section.

Tips and Notes
Note: The <address> tag should NOT be used [...]

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Proposal for HTML 5?

As a developer, there are certain things I find a bit frustrating about HTML and PHP programming, and this is one of them.
I’m regularly called upon to build shops, or very simple CMS systems with image upload facilities. This is fine, no complaints about that, but when you’re creating a CMS with image uploads, you [...]

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A proposal for robots.txt – RSS feeds

Ok, so I know that you can link to RSS feeds via your HTML using
<link href=”" rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”" />
but since we’re already using starting to use robots.txt files to reference our sitemaps like so:
Sitemap: <sitemap_location>
why not use it to reference our RSS feeds as well? It would be trivial do something like this in [...]

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