Posts in “web standards”

Notes on Writing a Blog Tool from Scratch
January 31, 2008
12:24 PM
On planets, AtomPub client support, and pingbacks.
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Rendering Mode Switching Reloaded
January 22, 2008
8:06 PM
There's been quite a number of negative reactions to the recent announcement that the upcoming version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer will introduce a new way to switch between rendering modes. I personally think the proposal makes sense and is technically okay.
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Conditional Comments Considered More of a Hack Than CSS Hacks
June 22, 2007
11:17 PM
Many web developers these days eschew CSS filters in favor of conditional comments in their HTML pages. At least in part because the vendor producing pretty much the only browser these days that requires the use of this kind of brute force design technique has asked us all to stop using CSS “hacks”.
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The Web Forms Wars
February 19, 2005
1:08 AM
Pemberton blasted the scripting approach taken in Web Forms 2.0, saying it doesn't scale well, is harder to maintain, doesn't address industry requirements and use cases, and doesn't provide the ability to take snapshots of each step in a forms-based process for sensitive industrial or governmental applications.
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