Category Archives: Standards

Standards

Internet Explorer 8: Progress!

3/6/2008 – 10:35 am

It seems that Microsoft has reversed their previous decision to make Internet Explorer 8 crippled by default. They will be enabling the standards compliant mode by default in IE8, and webmasters will have to use the X-UA-Compatible header to force it into IE7 mode, for sites that can’t be updated immediately. [...]

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Internet Explorer 8: This is progress?

1/23/2008 – 9:25 am

Internet Explorer 8 passes the Acid2 test. Huzzah!

But waitaminnit… What’s this stuff about forward compatibility by adding some new X-UA-Compatible header to my pages or my server? Am I reading this right? Are you telling me that in order for IE8 to use its fully compliant rendering, we have to add something new to our pages? And that if we don’t, it will fall back to rendering pages just like IE7? Is that what this means?

That’s just dumb.

Screw their stupid “don’t break the web” motto. [...]

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WP-Cache fix for Content-Type in feeds

6/19/2007 – 12:56 pm

If you run a busy WordPress site, or even if your site just has a lot of processor-intensive plugins, then you probably already run the WP-Cache plugin (plugin directory, original announcment, recent security update info). [...]

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WordPress.com supports OpenID

3/6/2007 – 4:36 pm

The word just went out today that the WordPress.com blog hosting service now supports OpenID, both as a server and a consumer. [...]

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OpenID News

2/13/2007 – 2:01 pm

Since my WordPress upgrade and theme change, the OpenID sign-on functionality here has been a little iffy. I think I’ve got all the kinks worked out now, and it should be working correctly again. [...]

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Dougal 4.0

1/30/2007 – 1:20 pm

Today I turn the big Four-Oh. I’m not sure how I should feel about that. Since I’m a web development geek, how about we consider some possible responses in terms of HTTP 1.1 Status Codes:

I suppose the expected response would be 406 Not Acceptable. [...]

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CSS: The One True Layout

10/27/2005 – 5:21 pm

I had recently been using Alex Robinson’s 3-column CSS technique called “ordered columns, float-margin/float-margin” for some website designs. [...]

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IE7 and the demise of CSS hacks

10/13/2005 – 12:53 pm

As mentioned previously here and elsewhere, Microsoft is working on Internet Explorer 7, which will have greatly improved CSS support. [...]

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Free Opera Registration

9/20/2005 – 10:25 am

You can now download the Opera 8.5 web browser license-free and ad-free. . [...]

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Microformat for media descriptions

7/26/2005 – 10:06 am

I’m interested in coming up with a good metadata system for describing various sorts of media. Obviously, this ties in to my recent work on my “now playing” feature, and also into my interest in microformats. [...]

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