Author Archives: Pace Arko

If you must use IE–

If you must use Internet Explorer, please, please, please, turn off all scripting, Java and ActiveX support. Learning how to restrict security in Internet Explorer is easy. Once you turn off all JavaScript, VBScript, ActiveX and Java support, 99% of … Continue reading

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A justification to learn new stuff

So in relation to my earlier post about XHTML, yesterday I was reading what Jacques Distler had to offer for justifications for serving XHTML as application/xhtml+xml. But it’s easy for him–many of his entries serve up MathML. Unlike him, I … Continue reading

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Back to HTML 4

Nearly three years ago I converted all the markup on this site from strict HTML 4 to strict XHTML 1. Fairly soon after this, I discovered that, to be kosher, I had serve this with the MIME format set to … Continue reading

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The most clever social engineering I've seen so far.

On Saturday, around 2 in the morning, I received a blind carbon at one of my work addresses that had a frighteningly clever phishing scheme posing as a Red Hat security update. I thought it was real and the only … Continue reading

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Where are we headed?

As I go to vote later today, the arrogance of our foreign policy and the alienation of long time allies will figure large in my mind. A correction must be made. This is probably no surprise to my friends, since … Continue reading

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Sometimes you just gotta let your freak flag fly!

Despite years of completely justified ridicule, people still watch television. Adults, with kids, taxes and jobs still act like complete idiots at football games. People still play golf–that’s one I’ve never understood. People still make beadwork. People still dance badly … Continue reading

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Why I am a standards fanatic

Professor Dragovich wrote to me: “I don’t think web sites have to be ADA compliant. Do publishers have to publish books that are ADA compliant? Digital versus analog information. Why one and not the other.” Actually all major book publishers … Continue reading

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A big setback for accessibility in the US

I just read that an appeals court has ruled that the ADA does not apply to websites. This is amazingly stupid and the judges who made this decision should turn in their robes. The whole point of the ADA and … Continue reading

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Making the switch to Firefox

As a webmaster, I’d been using Mozilla since version 0.7 and Opera since version 3 to design and test with. I’d build for Mozilla first and then tweak things so they worked in Internet Explorer vesion 5, which at the … Continue reading

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YAWDR: Yet another Web design roundup

Over at Digital Web Magazine, there is an article about merging CSS with content managment applications. The article is short on technical detail but does describe various different interfaces and goals to be reached. Opera, Mozilla and Firefox (And for … Continue reading

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