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Betcha Didn’t Know… W3C HTML Spec: 17.6.1
the W3C HTML 4.01 Specification: Forms in HTML documents 17.6.1 Pre-selected options Having not known this little bit of HTML correctness before stumbling upon it while referencing something else this evening, I would like to share it so that you may benefit from the knowledge (or I may recall on a later date). Please note…
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XHTML 2.0 – the Modular Web and XForm’s
While roaming with a gnome, I found this interesting little mention of XHTML 2.0 from one of my favorite new web aggregate resources, Answers.com.See for yourself what the rumors suggest we might see in XHTML 2.0
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need to increase the height of a layout column <div> ?
For about a year now, the stylistic quality of my own original html compositions has been handled by the incredibly versatile stylistic design, and layout options afforded by Cascading Stylesheets (though it seems much longer than that!). A proponent of universally accessible design, and advocate of web standards, valid, logically structured XHTML and CSS code,…
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BLOCKQUOTE: Are you really quoting someone?
As XHTML becomes more and more prevalent, and web developers adhere to W3C guidelines to migrate to XHTML as the compliant, standardized source-code which should be used in web sites to promote accessibility, we must be aware of the elements we use in our markup.Let’s take a look at <BLOCKQUOTE> for example. As stated in the W3C…
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the Worst Web Sites of 2006 / 2007
I thought it might be fun to list some of the worst‡ Web Sites of recent discovery. I hope you are entertained by the following list of disappointments‡. Why compile a list of disappointments? Because, when I viewed the items listed below, what I found may have been unexpected; may have initially produced a feeling…
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CSS 2.1 (W3C Working Draft) 6.4
!Important; and the Precedence of non-CSS presentational hintsthe following is an excerpt from the Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1 CSS 2.1 Specification which appears in the Panelizer, a convenient package of resources, available FREE in a .zip archive, and downloadable via Rijk‘s handy link (Rijk is a well known, and credible People.Opera.com user and author).This is not the complete text from the original…
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mod_perl: Installation Failure (however difficult to assess)
Lacking the knowledge previous to this day’s endeavor, in an ultimate attempt to develop ASP on an existing Apache2 installation, i researched the options and my searching pointed to – mod_perl. What I installed the file named Perl-5.8-win32-bin-0.10.exe , a rather complex, self-extracting, “automatic” installation process. I probably would have had more success had I…
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A Compiled List — on short notice and little time…
Stuff i wanted to log real quick before signing off, and before my head hits the keyboard; yet again my glasses fall to the floor… I thought this sounded like pretty good advice, so i’m passing it on to you! Five Steps to Good Blogging Newsome.Org – The “real reason” – Why Blogging is [difficult]…
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Understanding CSS:
Syntax and Basic Data TypesThe Following excerpt is borrowed directly from the W3C CSS 2.1 Specification: Ch. 4 Syntax and basic data types. It has been modified from the original code only in that relative paths have been changed to absolute URL’s. Rather than cite specific sections of Ch 4, i thought it best to leave it open to case-by-case…
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Dynamic-Outlines (e.g. :focus {outline:color}) | CSS 2.1 Spec: W3C
Much like the border property, the outline property will create a line surrounding the element— however, the main remarkable difference is that Outline unlike border does not take up screen real-estate (it doesn’t cause the ‘outlined element’ to get wider and taller as would adding a border property. 18.4 Dynamic outlines: the ‘outline’ property At…
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