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Standards

Total Validation

If you’re interested in validating your web pages, you’ve probably used the W3C’s XHTML and CSS validators. Another option is Total Validator, which not only validates your page’s HTML, but can check it for accessibility and broken links, spelling, as well as provide screenshots of the page in a host of environments. There’s also an extension […]

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RDF

In front of one’s face

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. From Planet RDF today, Leo Sauermann points to Zack Rosen who writes of a flawed research/implementation paradigm with regards to RDF. He states that researchers interested in RDF aren’t keeping up with today’s web implementations, such as weblogging software. They’re building ‘widgets’ rather than useful content, and so on. One specific complaint: # Researchers […]

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Just Shelley

Many Moving Parts

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I don’t get the web on my cell phone. Personally I don’t like to take calls on my cell phone when I’m out and about. I carry it with me more for telling me what time it is (I don’t wear a watch) and emergencies, as in: “Help, I’m trapped […]

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Diversity

Irony

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Oh god, please, won’t someone notice the irony of this post, and the accolades heaped on this white boy? I can’t be the only human being on this planet who sees this as absolute proof of everything we’ve been saying for years about the invisibility of women. I am silenced. I have nothing more […]

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Diversity

Focusing

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Interesting. The Ajax Experience no longer has the dubious distinction of have no women in its speaker list. It now has Molly Holzschlag. Since I know absolutely squat about JavaScript and XMLHttpRequest other than what they do, it’s rather humorous I’d get picked up for such a seriously geeky conference as […]