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htaccess utility

Now 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 […]

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Microsoft to world: do as we say

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 […]

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Light grey screen of mild achiness

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 […]

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Google is the new Cloverfield monster

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 […]

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The next good thing

A VC wrote: My view, for those who haven’t been reading this blog for a long time, is that all of this privacy stuff is way over the top. You need to disclose what you are doing and Facebook has done that. You need to give users a way to opt out and I believe […]