Archive for December, 2005

Slacker Manager: The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users is an interesting, if perhaps common sense filled, article on how to make the most of del.icio.us.
When I first signed up for del.icio.us, I did so thinking it might be a cool little diversion that would last no more than a week. Yet here I am many [...]

Yahoo Music Browser Support

Sunday, December 18th, 2005

The Web Standards Project points out that the new Yahoo music does not support FireFox; and if you try to watch a video, suggests that you need upgrade to Netscape 4.7 (on the mac) or 7.1 (on the PC)!
I attempted to listen to one of the radio stations with FireFox 1.5, and got this:

So it [...]

Lean XHTML and Precise CSS

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

Business Logs has a very interesting article up right now on writing lean CSS and XHTML.
I’ve tried many different ways of formatting my CSS over the years, and have always found myself coming back to ordering it in exactly the same way that the logical blocks are ordered in the XHTML. I definitely [...]

Mastering Ajax Websites

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

While I feel AJAX isn’t something you need for almost any page, if you do feel you need implement AJAX, there is a great article over at IBM developerWorks on mastering AJAX.
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XHTML is not for Beginners?

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

Lachy’s Log has a somewhat controversial post, titled XHTML is not for Beginners, that is getting quite a lot of attention. And no wonder, to go out there and say that beginners should not be taught XHTML is going to get people talking.
XHTML: It’s all or nothing
The problem is of course that true XHTML is [...]