Recovered from the Wayback Machine. …why Atom is the only syndication format to use (if you all persist in finding RDF too hard that is, and go icky poo with RSS 1.x). Rogers Cadenhead: In part to address his concerns (and some voiced by Palfrey), I launched a new site for the board and we’ve been working […]
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XML Introduction
Originally published in NetscapeWorld, sometime in 1997. Note, the examples in this article only work with IE 4.x, and have only been tested with IE 4.01 on Windows95 and Windows NT. Netscape does not have XML parsing built into Navigator 4.x at this time, something that will probably change with Navigator 5.0. The concept is simple: […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I finally found out what was causing the problems with the post When We Are Needed in IE: it’s called the “Magic Creeping Text” bug. It’s caused by having a left border for a blockquote (or other marginalized blocks), without having an accompanying bottom border. I’ve since fixed the bug, by adding […]
I’ve been quieter than anticipated this week, primarily because I’m working on a very long essay, which I should be able to post tomorrow. I hope so because I need to finish my work for Roger at JournURL especially since I keep causing him work (”Say, Roger, you know wouldn’t this be nice if…”) Beware you sons […]
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Google doesn’t REST
Thanks to Sam Ruby for a heads up on a potentially nasty problem with Google’s new Web Accelerator, and badly designed REST applications. He linked to two sites that go into the details. The short version is that users of a specific web service were finding that they were losing data and after investigation, the service discovered that the Web Accelerator was the culprit. […]