History is not what happened. History is what was written down.
Currently I’m building an app which will accept metadata from different sources, translate that into an API to dynamically build an HTML form from. Everything is going just dandy until my page stopped validating (I use tidy to validate my markup) when I got the following warning:
After some digging I discovered that the value of [...]
I’ve often used browsercam for testing my sites in different browsers on different operating systems. So I can pass a URL (which must be publicly available) and see screenshot results on Windows, Linux and Mac across just about any browser you like…from Flock to Firefox and Safari to Konqueror. A full browser list can be [...]
These days all the rage is building web pages without tables, but has this gone too far for a lot of developers?
I’m of the opinion that HTML tables shouldn’t be used for layout purposes and I think most would agree, if you don’t please let me know because I’d love to hear the reasoning [...]
Roger Johansson wrote a nice article on why web standards still matter. He notes that recently there has been an increased level of interest and activity around web standards, but those that do strive for excellence in their code (i.e. web standards) are in the extreme minority.
I would tend to agree with this, take his [...]
The Robots META tag is a way you can tell ‘Robots’ or ‘Spiders’ whether a page (or pages) on your site should be indexed, or if links on the page should be followed.
At this stage I don’t believe all ‘robots’ out there support the use of this META tag, but some do so in the [...]