BurningbirdNow this is nice: an .htaccess editor, as well as a reference to an .htaccess generator. The editor has a decent interface, though it’s not perfect. It needs online help attached to each of the options, and the site needs reference to example files. As more non-techs host their own sites, tools like this will make […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Jeffrey Zeldman writes in support of the Microsoft IE8 meta tag, which we find out is a done deal. To understand version targeting—which we ought to try to do, since Microsoft intends to implement it and hopes at least some of us will opt in—let us examine two different sets of […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Jeff Schiller writes: It turns out, as Shelley has mentioned, that the best developer experience to work on XHTML is also (by far) Opera. Instead of Firefox’s “yellow screen of death” we’re greeted with Opera’s “light grey screen of mild achiness”. Instead of cryptic messages about unexpected tags, the element which […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Oh, the horror! Google hijacks 404 pages! The reality is that the new Google beta toolbar doesn’t hijack the 404 page if the site provides a 404 page or other form of web error handling. I tried the toolbar out this morning, and the only case I found where the Google toolbar provided […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. On today’s tenth anniversary of the birth of XML, Norm Walsh writes: I joined O’Reilly on the very first day of an unprecedented two-week period during which the production department, the folks who actually turn finished manuscripts into books, was closed. The department was undergoing a two-week training period during which they would […]