BurningbirdAbout XHTML/HTML
Anne Van Kesteren: A new survey reveals that at least Microsoft and IBM think the HTML charter does not cover the canvas element. I have to wonder, when reading the survey results, how much the people who voted actually used either SVG or the Canvas element. I covered both SVG and the Canvas Element in the […]
I must admit to being confused about Molly Holzschlag’s recent posts, including the latest. Today she writes, in clarification of her post where she calls for a moratorium on new standards work: Perhaps there is a better solution than pausing standards development. If so, I’d like to know what you think it might be. One thing […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I realize that perhaps my choice of serving up XHTML instead of HTML through WordPress seems audacious, but if you want to point out potential problems, can you send me an email? Rather than put something in the comments to ‘demonstrate’ the problem? Believe it or not, I am open […]
Created my first formal Drupal patch, providing an XHTML content type to the Atom module. Once I walked through the module, and the procedure to apply a patch, it really wasn’t all that difficult to both create the patch, and submit it for review. And the feed validates, though with a warning because of the object […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There is a belief that if it weren’t for the fact that the earliest versions of HTML were unstructured–full of proprietary idiosyncrasies and ill-formed markup indulged by too-loose browsers–the web wouldn’t have grown as fast as it did. Somehow, we’ve equated growth with bad and imprecise specifications rather than the […]