Making some tweaks

If you’re reading my blog in a feed reader, c’mon over to the HTML version and take a look — it’s painfully bright! Thanks to Lilia for making a beautiful...

You My Midga

The great thing about identity is that we get to make it up as we go along. Thus, You My Midga , which ends with the inarguable conclusion “I prefer the Cockney...

A middle layer of web apps

Olivier has offered a challenging analysis whose name explains his thesis: " Organizr is Nice, But Not a Web App ". The fundamental debate is whether...

fixing web pages on the fly

I was thinking about the fact that browsers have to fix up a page internally in order to render it correctly if elements are incorrectly nested or are left...

payment LINK tags

There are already a lot of defined (if not quite standardized) possible values for the LINK element in XHTML. We’re using them for RSS Auto-Discovery and, of...

syndication formats?

I have a radical proposal for a ubiqitous content syndication format, applicable for almost any purpose, but extremely well suited for weblogs. It’s extremely...

the nl element!

The burden of being me is best explained by a confession that I currently have a crush on the nl element of the XHTML 2.0 specification. This dorkitude is my...

Amazon rocking XHTML

Two new XHTML versions of the Amazon homepage, one by Steve Clay , and one by Ralph Brandi . Nice work, guys.

kottke in XHTML/CSS

Here’s a quick version (took me 45 minutes) of kottke.org done in valid XHTML and CSS . It’s not ideal, as there’s some weird spacing thing at the top of the...

iframe RPC

You should all know that Eric is a goddamned genius. His remote scripting system using javascript and iframes is just brilliant and, frankly, I resent him for...

Partial transcript of a conversation

Partial transcript of a conversation I had with Dinah , starting with me yammering about Office XP Smart Tags: Anil Dash :the Tags are like DeepLeap for Office,...

XHTML

Well, it’s a doozy, but the W3C has come up with a proposal that I think is killer. XHTML 1.0 . In simplest terms, it’s a reformulation of HTML 4.0 (plus a few...