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CSS notes - August 31, 2003

Some new CSS resources and examples: MiniTab Shapes are a new variant of CSS mini tabs, using small GIFs instead... hebig.orgblog
http://www.hebig.org/blogs/archives/main/001140.php

CSS, Web Standards and Accessibility - August 31, 2003

There have been some good articles and posts on various blogs of late about CSS, Web Standards and Accessibility. Here's a selection of some of the best ones. Standards: Designing For the FutureOld Coding Habits Die HardIn Defense of the BoxOver-Accessible... Andy Budd::Blogography
http://www.andybudd.com/blog/archives/000038.html

RSS 2.0 Best Practice Tip: Entity-encoded HTML in Descriptions - August 31, 2003

Technical Recommendations for Avoiding Interoperability Issues Related to the Use of Non-ASCII Characters within Elements Lockergnome's RSS Resource
http://rss.lockergnome.com/archives/standards/006837.phtml

Appease your inner geek - August 31, 2003

Any geek worth mentioning has been to SourceForge.net at least once in their life. As a matter of fact, I found an open source program there called POPFile that I simply cannot live without. Now as we all know; "Time is like money because everybody wants some from ya." We don't always have the opportunity to check out the latest software releases from SourceForge.net. Perhaps the thought never even entered our minds. Then a rival geek brags about their latest "open source find" all over the...
http://rss.lockergnome.com/archives/feeds/006869.phtml

Tagging conventions for microcontent - August 31, 2003

Jon Udell has put up his structured blog search which allows you to write XPaths over an XML representation of his blog and get some useful information out of it. In the accompanying blog post he makes the plea for well formedness, since that makes things easier. No argument from me. What I'm more interested in is a description of his tagging conventions. Ted Leung on the air
http://www.sauria.com/blog/2003/08/30#540

W3C Markup Validator 0.6.5 Beta 1 - August 31, 2003

The new "Zeldman Made Us Do It!" edition of the W3C's free online markup validation service includes human-friendly error messages that you can customize, and a "fussy parsing" mode that catches technically kosher but problematic patches in your markup. Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report
http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0803a.shtml#validator

Two RFCs: Comment notification in Radio and Manila - August 31, 2003

"Manila-Dev: RFC: Comment notification via email Radio-Dev: RFC: comment notification for Radio via email If you're a Manila or Radio developer, please have a look, and post any comments or questions you have on the corresponding mail list. Thanks!" Jake's Radio 'Blog
http://jake.userland.com/2003/08/29.html#a862

LiteraryMoose: CSS Destroy - August 29, 2003

This page collects my own experiments with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Normal usage of styles is omnipresent throughout my site, as it is positioned and styled exclusively with CSS. Nevertheless, I felt the need to express my moosely ideas further, beyond what is considered normal. Therefore, whatever follows, should by construction be considered abnormal. I do not intend to save the world, or present ideas with Edisonous utilitarian properties; all experiments of mine are useless from the...
http://www.literarymoose.info/=/css.html

Introducing O'Reilly's Developer News Site - August 28, 2003

I'd like to introduce you to O'Reilly's Developer News site. I think it is the cumulative work of the best parts of news sites today. Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3709

Blogware developed in Ruby!! - August 28, 2003

"Congrats on the first publicly deployed blog hosting system in Ruby! Cool! Could we have some more technical details please, Joey Like why Ruby and why not Perl, PHP, ASP, etc The things you mention are nice computer science arguments, but some juicy ammunition for PHB's :-) would be awesome!" "Boss Ross has declared that we are far enough out of stealth mode for me to use my powers as Tucows' TCDC (Technical Community Development Coordinator) and actually say what language the developers are.
http://accordionguy.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2003/8/27/1811.html