Category Archives: Webmastering

So the WaSP has issued another manifesto now that Microsoft has declared that it will no longer build standalone, free browsers for Windows and Apple machines. Now I say this as a long time supporter of the WaSP, but I … Continue reading →

So I have just spidered my site and, oh man, I have a lot of dead links. One of the drawbacks to using your web log as a hot link list is that a lot of stuff dies or gets … Continue reading →

Imagine if people didn’t have to use Acrobat or Word to print out legible, neatly organized documents? Well, they almost can. They almost could if there was good support of CSS rules and attributes related to print media. Mozilla does … Continue reading →

Other folks have probably written essays on how hypertext has influenced writing style in other media. Here I’d like to briefly discuss how working with and correcting document markup to make it conform to the semantic intent of the W3C … Continue reading →

Even though many screen readers and Web browsers don’t support them yet, I put accessibility attributes in all the data tables I put on sites. (Don’t know how to build an accessible data table? Use the accessible table builder.) The … Continue reading →

By way of Evolt, I just learned that Cingular Wireless redesigned their site to validate as strict XHTML 1. Progress is being made comrades! They will eventually come to understand the vanguard of the revolution!

So looking at the Kevin’s editor, I see that it uses Mozilla’s midas component. As my ignorance slides away, I discover to my horror that Midas and MSHTML both generate markup differently from each other and they both generate markup … Continue reading →

So upon seeing Kevin Roth’s cross-platform WYSIWYG editor, I decided that would be a great thing to replace the JavaScript editor on Greymatter’s entry and revision forms with. I’ve been very busy and plan to be pretty busy through the … Continue reading →

Yesterday, while sifting through blogdex, I found a link to a javascript authored by Merek Prokop that fixes Internet Explorer’s lack of support for the ABBR tag. Looking for further I discover that the source that introduced this link into … Continue reading →

The abbr tag doesn’t work in Internet Explorer for Windows, but, using client-side scripting, you can make it work. It occurred to me while reading Marek’s article, that a similar trick could be used to avoid messing up your pages … Continue reading →