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Is this some horror unknown?
So let’s see if I can add a new entry with the XStandard editor! Yes, I can. Later, upon entry revision, I see that if I add something to the extended area but later erase it, XStandard retains a nonbreaking … 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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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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Portable Nuclear Reactors
The DOE has developed a small, self-contained nuclear power plant called SSTAR. The plan is that these would be sold to developing nations to meet their growing electricity needs while at the same time reducing the danger of nuclear proliferation … Continue reading
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Desalination gets cheaper
Just came across a BBC article about a new desalination technology being used in Israel. This is a good thing, hopefully removing a bone of contention in violent region of the world.
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Fab labs: Factories grow still more portable
I haven’t really been paying attention these last few weeks but a lot of interest is being generated on the sites I read (CRN, WorldChanging, Cyborg Democracy) about something called a Fab Lab. As near as I can understand, a … Continue reading
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