Categoria: Web & Interfaces

Parse at all costs. It takes balls to write an article for XML.com demonstrating how to parse an XML-based format without an XML parser. (954 words) [dive into mark]

Why does it matter?. Jay Allen complains that I don't say who I am. So I added an “About Me” link at the top. Jay also implies that without RSS, computers can't read a site. This rather misses the point, though. XHTML is just as computer readable as RSS, in fact, as others have said in the past, XHTML really should be used instead of RSS. [Hixie's Natural Log]

E infatti avevo cercato un link “about me” tutta ieri notte…

The one I've never tried. I am now using mod_rewrite-based browser sniffing to work around CSS bugs in different browsers. I am aware that this is a complete reversal from my position last week, when I claimed that CSS hackery was the lesser of two evils. To (mis)quote Mae West: “Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.” (274 words) [dive into mark]

Body IDs. My page logo is identical on all pages (it's patched in with server-side includes), but I've always wanted a way to distinguish it on different pages. But, I don't want to maintain half a dozen different stylesheets either. I finally figured out how to do it. (177 words) [dive into mark]

W3C Launches Timed Text Working Group. 17 January 2003: W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Timed Text Working Group (TTWG) within the SYMM (Synchronized Multimedia) Activity. The TTWG is chartered to develop an XML based format used to represent streamable text synchronized with timed media like audio or video. Movie captions on the Web are a typical timed text application. Read the group's charter and more about the Synchronized Multimedia Activity. (News archive) [World Wide Web Consortium]

Sjoerd Visscher: “XHTML, and specifically version 2.0, is a perfect dataformat for weblogs.” [Scripting News]